[Alberta's Child]

Is it better to tax foreign factories that enjoy access to one of the world’s largest markets and who are subsidized by foreign governments ...

This is a good point, but I really find myself at a loss over how to figure this out. Whose interests are served when a foreign country -- whose citizens have a much lower standard of living than ours -- taxes those citizens to subsidize major industries ... that sell manufactured products that the workers who make them cannot afford ... to American consumers at a steep discount?

What am I missing here?

[Hawthorn]

>> Whose interests are served when a foreign country — whose citizens have a much lower standard of living than ours — taxes those citizens to subsidize major industries ... that sell manufactured products that the workers who make them cannot afford ... to American consumers at a steep discount? <<

American consumers benefit big time. It’s one of the first things you’ll learn in Economics 201.