Quote:Yes, the government protects the American market, that is one of the things it's there for and Madison et al knew it. I'm not advocating all of the other tacked on internal stuff like the EPA and such, and collective bargaining in the private sector is a right. What must happen is for some form of gatekeeping to our market to protect the quality of our lifestyle. 

 

What you advocate is a race to the bottom, suffering an adversary's unfair advantage with no means to retaliate except to join him in his nefarious behavior.

 

No I'm advocating we clean up our problems here and let China be China. So what if 100% of the manufacturing went to China we'd be fine, it's an industry that is being overran with more advanced robotics, the need for even human labor is minimal and only going to decrease over time. I'm not for taxing consumers to try and curve the behavior of foreign government. This isn't about protecting our quality of life, it's about making it fair for domestic manufactures to compete with foreign manufactures. 

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