[Texas_Dawg]

If it is wrong (and illegal by federal law) for a company to exploit your next door neighbor and pay him less than the federal minimum wage, then it should be just as wrong to exploit the yellow people in China and the brown people in India.

It is only "wrong" in that it would be against a ridiculous law we created (the minimum wage). If I raise the price of goods in my store, you are not doing something "wrong" by shopping somewhere else. Americans corporations are not "exploiting" labor in China and India (although the ultra Left would totally agree with you there). The Chinese and Indian people line up out the door to work for these American firms when they come.

[Cacophonous]

Any tariff has to be accompanied or...eased (or lack of a better word)...by a lessening of the burden of corporate taxes, federal regs, and unions.