Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
Trump is not wrong when he says US gets killed on trade. It's not too much because of differentiation in tariffs (there doesn't seem to be as much of that), but is mostly about differentiation in regulation. This is one reason why I'm skeptical about Trump being able to really fix trade. Fixing trade would mean deregulating industry domestically. But maybe it can be done. RGDP growth would skyrocket.
There's a way to drastically increase the trade we do with other countries. Bring our costs down on what it costs to do trade with us, this is why I'm opposed to the tariff's, as Trump did in fact propose on the campaign trail, which is the only evidence we have at this moment on how he will govern.

But here's the other thing. We're at a crossroads in this country.

If we wanted to get much more trade, we can bring the cost down of goods in this country and therefore attracting countries to trade with us, by simply paying the American worker significantly less than they make now. We can choose to have American workers wages compete with the workers wages in say, France, Germany, Canada and The Netherlands, or we can have American workers wages compete with the workers wages of countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, and Sri Lanka.