We needed something like them six years ago.
We continue to import more that thirty billion a month. At six thousand dollars a month per person on average, that is five million jobs.
The other alternatives are heavy, flat and across-the-board tariffs, and making American workers more efficient. Health care reform is a big part of the latter, and the former may certainly happen, but either way, we are short millions of jobs.
In 2006, senators Russ Feingold and Byron Dorgan introduced the Balanced Trade Restoration Act. It was referred to committee where it died.
We need this, nearly as badly as we need health care and banking reform. How can this get started again?