We need to lower the cost of government and lower the cost of doing business in this country. Shutting down dollar stores and raising prices to lower the standard of living isn't the answer. If you think we're ever going to produce low-priced widgets in this country just by raising the price, you are insane.
You can eliminate all taxes and regulations and you won't be able to compete with Communist China's $2/day wages.
By the way China has a 90% Tax rate, and they are doing just fine. Why? Because they have cheap labor and they can sell to us without buying hardly anything back except our debt and manufacturing know how.
If you block access to our markets, or raise the price of imports, things will get produced in our country. And our people will go back to work. Our founding fathers put import tariffs in place, and they worked well for most of our country's history. Now they are practically gone and our unemployment is through the roof.