Brain357
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They could. It’s far more likely than protectionist policy working.The workers need to provide the pressure. As long as they are blaming China nothing will happen.So a trade war and agreements are likely to make things worse. The changes I suggest should only make things better.Government has a long history of being bad at managing an economy, I think you are wrong if you think they can do a good job of managing trade. Just another thing that will lead to more corruption. Free trade is controlled by markets and can’t be corrupted.
I think the Government sucks at it too. The results of these agreements makes that pretty obvious, but they're the ones that can actually negotiate these things, so their involvement is unavoidable.
Corporations are no better and the nexus of these special interests and Government is not a good one for American workers.
In a perfect world we could do those things. Other nations or special interests right here in the US are not going to make concessions on anything they are not pressured to give up.
They don't have the leverage to do it.