THose issues get a lot of attention because they are very identifiable. But the over all use of their manufacture of products using vastly cheaper labor than legal in the US, is likely to be an advantage to their manufacturers, that American manufacturers will struggle to compete against.
The idea of having First World workers compete against Third World labor, on a level playing field has been tried. And the results have been a freaking disaster for US.
The US consumer has been given the choice of paying higher prices and supporting US manufacturers or lower prices for goods manufactured in other countries that have lower wages. The US consumers support choose the lower priced item the vast majority of the time.
Trump is proposing we will no longer give the US consumer the choice of lower priced foreign manufactured goods. Trump is closing the US market. Capitalism was not built on cl0sed markets.
Trade policy is a government function. The US economy was built on being somewhat closed. This idea of Free Trade, especially non reciprocate "free trade" is not how we grew to our current size and wealth.
You are not so much making an argument, as spouting some libertarian buzzwords trying to get an emotional reaction from me.
You have failed.
Correl does not know economics or history.
The process of opening world markets and expanding trade, initiated in the United States in 1934 and consistently pursued since the end of the Second World War, has played an important role in the development of American prosperity. According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, American real incomes are 9% higher than they would otherwise have been as a result of trade liberalizing efforts since the Second World War. In terms of the U.S. economy in 2013, that 9% represents $1.5 trillion in additional American income.