[AdamSelene235]

If the individual companies are being forced by the competition to eliminate American jobs, maybe the correct answer is to level the playing field by restoring the properly calibrated tariffs (and maybe reducing payroll tax in exchange)?

Why not level the playing field by reducing America's fiscal burden of government to, say, Red Chinese levels i.e. a 2X reduction.

Or how about about a flat tax like Moscow?

Americans need to choose between a free market or a centrally planned one that provides free health care for Africa, free drugs for seniors, etc, etc.

[AdamSelene235]

Three Systems of Plunder

The sincerity of those who advocate protectionism, socialism, and communism is not here questioned. Any writer who would do that must be influenced by a political spirit or a political fear. It is to be pointed out, however, that protectionism, socialism, and communism are basically the same plant in three different stages of its growth. All that can be said is that legal plunder is more visible in communism because it is complete plunder; and in protectionism because the plunder is limited to specific groups and industries.* Thus it follows that, of the three systems, socialism is the vaguest, the most indecisive, and, consequently, the most sincere stage of development.

-The Law, Frederick Bastiat