It is time to get tough with American companies who sell out to other countries. The economic destruction of America will be the end of America and there will be no going back, Where has the pride in America gone? Out the window with overtaxation to fund countless giveaway projects of the socialists and New World Order supporters. Every product that is built or made in a foreign country is strengthening that country and depleting the wealth of America. Tariffs are a good way to force a pause until taxation can be brought into order. Tariffs once supported the government so it’s time to give them a looksee again. NAFTA is another thing that needs to go if we are going to have a country left.
“Next, change the way Congress is paid. They should be paid by their individual states. Representatives would be selected by election of the people. Senators would be selected by the individual state legislatures for a period of FOUR years like it was done prior to 1912.”
You can start with General Electric!
Remember this: the US economy has already adjusted to the current political situation and is now heavily import-dependent. Imposing high tariffs on, say, Chinese goods, will put hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of Americans in import-related industries out of work, while doing nothing to bring manufacturing back on shore. Manufacturers will just move to another foreign country with lower tax rates and less regulation that the USA is not targeting yet. Impose tariffs on the whole world to avoid that, and you just piss off our few remaining allies.
The US tax code has to be brought into order first - and yes, that is going to be very difficult. Not only politically, but a lot of the skilled workforce needed to make up a decent a manufacturing base no longer exists. The old timers are retired or dead. Now we have twenty million unemployed political science majors, but not nearly enough young machinists or tailors. Unless you want to go the Bush/Rubio route and import them from the Latin realms...
American consumers have proven over and over again they will not pay the price required to support American-made goods. They talk big, but once they are at the cash register, they feel someone else should be responsible for economic patriotism.