Should Missouri say that they will no longer have free trade with the other 49 states, and keep all their industries, jobs, workers, money and products in their state? Of course not. Sounds a lot like the iron curtain around the U.S.S.R.
Any conservative knows the benefits of competition. The more people you have competing to make better products, the better and cheaper those products will get for the consumer.
And the consumer vastly outnumbers the people who work for a company. How many people buy Oreos vs. produce them? If you put everyone's name who watched a movie in the end credits, it would probably take days to run through instead of 5 minutes. Benefitting the consumer is much more important than benefitting the worker. Every worker works for only one company, but buys products from countless companies.
The welfare state is the source of all our economic problems. The high taxes hurt businesses and hurt our standard of living. And that is driven in no small part by a flood of poor illegals coming in to steal government services. Every country's immigration policy is designed to keep out a flood of poor people, even ours. But no one's enforcing it.
More specifically, I'm talking about finished products trade and unavailable natural resources trade.
I am NOT talking about shipping our chickens and beef to China for them to process and ship back to us. I am NOT talking about shipping our lumber to China for them to make furniture to skip back to us.
-PJ