Every nation in the world has had more than 20 years of economic advantages with VAT/Non-Tariff barriers + Tax advantages that have eroded our economy.
Free trade never has existed. The US was based on Tariffs + Excise taxes. This works!
100 years of messing things up has us now 16 trillion in debt and with a congress that appears to only no how to continue this cycle.We cant be borrowing money to pay for trade and then pay interest on that money to the tune of 300 billion borrowed and billions in interest and say this works. It doesnt! As other free trade nations have its time to have low import tariffs that pay for all outwardly focuses services(trade, fda, military policing, state dept, etc...). With this rebalancing the corp rate should drop as well to be the lowest in the world.