> is precisely because a lot of big corporations want to drive down the price of labor
Doesn't immigration also create industry which then creates jobs?
Doesn't immigration also create industry which then creates jobs?
But, lowering tariffs also lets cheap chinese assembly line shoes be shipped to the US for 80 cents less than what it costs to manufacture on shore.
The 80 cents saved does not matter to the shoemaker who lived to sell shoes all his life, has 2 kids and a mortgage, and suffers early retirement due to unfetted globalization.