Tarrif penalty on imports not manufactured to U.S regulations for polution, safety, child labor, etc

The original topic limited the topic wording. Here is more exact wording. 1) The US should have a penalizing tariff on imports (US companies manufacturing overseas are no exempt) in which the importer cannot demonstrate that the manufacturing of those products meet the environmental, safety, and employment regulations in the US. The penalty should be design to maintain competitiveness of both imported and internally manufactured goods. 2) The US should implement a federal sales tax and abolish income tax. Sales tax affects both imported and domestic products equally. Necessities such as lower cost food and clothing may be exempted to benefit low income. Income tax taxes US labor. [No mention of state taxes] This is not an attempt for the US to directly regulate the practices of companies other countries, while it would encourage self-regulation. If a country has regulations reasonably close to those in the US then there would be no penalty. Any regulation has to potential of over-regulating an industry out of business. The US has failed to consider this with self-regulation. The US has applied regulations to domestic manufacturing without considering its impact on competing with foreign manufacturing. The US has continued to lose domestic manufacturing. This has caused a huge trade deficit. Our economy cannot maintain this indefinitely. The US needs manufactured products to export in order to reduce the trade deficit. The US has already used tariff penalties on unfair trade practices. In the 1980"s Japanese companies were penalized for dumping computer memory on the market at below manufacturing cost. The dumping caused companies such as Mostek to go out of business. The penalty caused Hitachi to open a memory wafer fab in the US, and also developed a joint venture with TI, the TwinStar memory wafer fab. In the 1990"s Korean companies were penalized for dumping memory below cost into the US market. However, US computer manufacturers complained that this penalty would hurt US computer manufacturers using the memory while imported computers installed this memory overseas. So, instead also applying the penalty to imported computers with Korean memory, the penalty was so small that it was almost non-existent. As a result, all but Micron stopped making DRAM in the US, including Hitachi, TI, and TwinStar. Now, all the major US computer manufacturers contract their manufacturing overseas. While proper action may be complicated, no action isn"t working. The reason most companies initially moved manufacturing overseas was to avoid antipollution regulations. Moving and training new workers was expensive, as opposed to labor cost savings. Even if the US were to persuade China to improve antipollution practices, this doesn"t prevent companies from moving manufacturing somewhere else where pollution is unregulated. While the economy is picking up, almost all the recovery is to wealthy executives of large companies getting their wealth from overseas manufacturing. In 2008 and 2009, the majority of men over age 55 lost their jobs. Most either ended up getting a job for a small fraction of their original salary, or became consultants with little consulting opportunities available. These would be upper middle class, in whom income tax is highly dependent, now often have income credit instead. The wealthy are too few to fund income tax significantly. With the current trend, individual income tax could become more of a liability than an asset.