Reply #3: Go around?

[jacquelope]

If you bar out-of-country contractor work outright, how can they get around that?

And down the line the kind of tariffs I would be talking about would target any country we have a significant trade deficit with. I know about the tire tariff situation - that was poorly planned and I said way back that it was an incomplete move. They should have tariffed all the low wage nations producing tires. Or we could just do what SK does. :D

Either that or we could just let the trade deficit and the attendant rising debt ruin the dollar until all imports become too expensive in a natural way. We seem to be headed for that reality if we stay our current course.

As for employee-owned companies - I'd be willing to push for that as part of a 1-2 punch.