Well, I agree. We are dealing with the way things are now, not how they were, and not how they should be, and not how we’d like them to be.
In the midst of our socialist reality, does free trade really perform as it would in a vacuum? If it doesn’t, then it needs to be adjusted to deal with reality.
What would I do? First, I’d end all tax incentives to export jobs. I’d end the H1-b program. I’d actually have a manufacturing policy. More, but that’s all that come to mind on the spur of the moment.
In my opinion, ending those government meddles would help to return free trade to where it should be. Until then, most of us in the US pay the price.
Huh? In one moment, you say you would have “a manufacturing policy” - and then in the next sentence you say end government meddling.
Well, which is it?