Hey let's become more like China and have government controlled consumer taxes, a.k.a tariffs.
If it becomes cost prohibitive for the overseas seller of the imported item, it then becomes worthwhile to produce the item here.
it does exactly what you want in "bringing businesses back to this country"
Obviously you didn’t read the article. Much of it dealt with deregulation and lowering taxes.
Yes, has American Thinker gone right off the rails?
The first law signed by George Washington was the Tariff Act. I guess that makes the "indispensable Man" a commie. LOL
About 20 years ago, 80% of memory chip frabrication was in the US. The South Korean government then gave Samsung and others billions in cheap loans to build fabrication facilities in South Korea and undercut the prices of American producers and drive them out of the memory chip market. Now South Korea controls about 80% of memory chip fabrication, which means all those factories are within artillery range of North Korea. Great business and strategic planning on our part, eh?
We don't even have really free trade with Europe-- if US-made autos suddenly became more competitive in Germany, as soon as imports rose past a certain point the German government would raise false safety and quality issues to hold up delivery to try to stop losses at German firms.
To talk about the benefits of "free trade" under current conditions is lunacy.