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"for the right reason"

When companies have a choice to build in other countries then import product into the US, they will do that cost benefit analysis. If a country overly regulates and industry, it will just be made elsewhere.

When politicians pass laws that just cause jobs to be outsourced so they can say they are doing "the right thing" but not attempt to force other countries to follow, all you are doing is virtue signalling and killing jobs.

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You don’t have to let imports flow into the country without assessing costs to that as well. These are all policy choices.

That’s protectionism and it makes us all poorer.

No, it doesn’t. Like any policy that affects a complex adaptive system it has winners and losers and elements of unpredictability.

Don’t worry I actually have a degree in economics, you don’t have to explain why you think that.

Doesn’t mean it’s a model that corresponds with reality, or that dictates policy choices.

That's the key thing -- not expecting other countries to follow the standard we set. At times it is also even the same values. It's absurd that we don't do this.

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