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I support open trade but the assertion that the “average voter” benefits from freer trade disguises the fact that there are winners and losers to trade, even if the “average” is a win. If we did a better job of supporting those who are harmed by trade (often middle class manufacturing workers) we might create a more unambiguous win for the country.
Yes, we could (and should) help the middle class more. But that would require one of two possible scenarios…
1) Consumers and companies would have to be OK with paying more for things to be made in the USA, and we’d have to be OK with paying people to do things that machines could do more cheaply and/or better.
2) Someone (likely the government) would need to effectively support workers with better unemployment & re-training benefits (it’s pretty hard to go back to school when you’ve got bills to pay NOW) and job creation programs.
“Let the free market decide” doesn’t appear to work in this case.