Would you support enforcing US labor laws internationally?

I am not so sure if would devastate our economy, it would devastate the global economy because their cost of their products would skyrocket.,

 

You said wages in China are less than one dollar an hour. Average wages in the US are about twenty five dollars an hour. Therefore, if workers in China were paid the same as US workers, they would be paid twenty five times what the other workers in China are making.

I would say that making about twenty five times the wages of other workers would be pretty close to living like a millionaire.

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I keep thinking back to Reagan's use of tariffs and regulations in order to punish the Japanese. They thought it over, and decided that they can make more money by building their cars in the states, rather than back home. That was such a success that now Japanese cars are made all over the world. The cheap stuff made overseas helps in the here and now, but it helps everybody if the cheap stuff is made everywhere.

If we think of tariffs as obstacles, it's easy to see their value. Manufacturers will work to get around that obstacle, and there's only one way to do that. Move your manufacturing facilities to where they are not subject to tariffs. If we want to sell fords to martians, the obstacle of 100 + million miles through space is easy enough to overcome by making fords on mars.

The argument that the anti-tariff people use is that we profit by being able to consume the production of others. I think that's a losing proposition because we then have no use for our own production facilities. Consumption alone doesn't drive an economy. If it did, then the empty soldiers in my man cave would be like money in my bank.

 

The liberals LIKE their slaves. The liberals have been pining for slaves since Lincoln freed them.

 

it's almost like they want a global government to own all means of production...

 

That was one of the ideas pushed around many years ago, tariffs on companies in other countries exporting to the U.S. that don't conform to some basic U.S. labor standards.

It never really got anywhere though.

 

MINIMUM wage in CHINA is .85 cents. Minimum wage in the US is 7.50.

 

Some say .85 as minimum wage.. Some say 1.00 as the average wage. I chose to use average wages. The average wage in the US is about $50,000 per year or $25 per hour. That means they would be getting paid about 25 times what the other workers are being paid.

It does not make a lot of difference. They would be getting paid many times what other workers are being paid.

 

Well if you do that then you have American companies becoming middlemen that will hire locals to work in their factories and they'll buy products from their factories and ship in cutting down on Manpower and evading the law it would be very difficult to enforce and have an effect