Raising the cost of doing business is never the answer to the adverse consequences of a high cost of doing business. What America should do is lower taxes and cut or eliminate regulation.
I was talking to a couple of Danes last week (People from Denmark, not very large dogs). They were on a shopping spree while they were here in the U.S., because everything costs so much over there. There is a 25% sales tax, in addition to value-added taxes driving prices up. The tax on cars is 180%. So mostly, they don't buy cars.
Note that none of these "outsourced" jobs are being exported to places like Denmark, where the high cost of living makes it very unattractive to hire workers.
We can be more like the Danes and watch our economy shrivel, or we can be more like the free market dynamo that made this country great in the first place, and not worry about exporting jobs (and money) anymore. Simple choice.
We are witnessing "capitalism in suicide mode". The "globalization of trade" (labor actually) is bleeding personal wealth from wherever it exists in the world, alternating between less fortunate labor and consumer markets, Overall production and consumption will continue in a downward spiral, until most everyone is back to the simple concerns of food, clothing, and shelter.
The end result will be widespread acceptance of global socialization -- which will catapult some undesirable individual into power with promises of recapturing the glorious days of the past -- someone like Hillary -- or some other Adolph Hitler character on steroids.