Not sure if that last post made sense to you.
I’ll clarify.
I support addressing each of these things you have mentioned. Having said that, I have to be honest with myself. How does eliminating our minimum wage help bring jobs back, if we’ll never get folks to work for Chinese wages?
How does it help if we eliminate every Regulation, if China doesn’t apply them there at this time?
Even if we got rid of every union, please explain why that makes us better than China. It doesn’t have them.
Yes, high taxes do kill jobs. Once again though, if we lowered our taxes to 10%, would that be less than our businesses pay China?
So while I want to address all these things, I have to admit it isn’t the competitive thing that some folks think it is. In some instances it would simply fall short of what folks already achieve in China.
That’s why I say tariffs must be a component of bringing back jobs.
All of your questions are answered but the fact that COGS will be significantly lowered which itself will expand business investment and opportunity which leads to an expanded economy and the by-product of more jobs.
Combine that with the fact that foreign subsides and tariffs are foreign governments shooting themselves in the foot. Foreign subsidies, ie. socialist economic interference, weakens that country’s economy as does tariffs which artificially force higher prices on the foreign country’s own citizens. Over time, business from a healthy free economy will out compete such artificial, empty measures in both price and quality. Just because they shoot themselves in the foot doesn’t mean we have to.
Countries that engage in such practices hurts themselves (and overall free trade) and those who refuse to do so benefit themselves and free trade.
Also, we don’t have to win in every market area. Some countries are better than others at certain things. Let the voluntary cooperation of buyers and sellers in the open competition of the free market work it out. Just keep government OUT. The consumer will always win, like the American consumer historically always has, and is why the average American has always been better off than the average citizen anywhere else.
We have to get rid of welfare as it is and force people to WORK. No sit on your ass, smoke a camel-this is the promised land progressive crap. They either work or starve.