Laissez-faire is a policy of non-interference. There was a government who chose not to act. There exists no location "not under any government" (and arguably hasn't been for thousands of years at a minimum) so I didn't take you literally, as you gave an impossible constraint. Now that you've stated you are a troll who makes up impossible situations for the goal of ridiculing anyone who dares disagree with you, I'll treat you accordingly. Fuck you.

Factories in the late 1800s in the USA. What, are you a product of US public education? I guess that's why you've never heard of Laissez-faire

"Do something about" isn't the same as "pass a law prohibiting X" You are the one lying, not him.

So you want the US government to micro-manage essentially all production and commerce worldwide, using an army of super-smart, infallible bureaucrats to make (or second guess) every decision. Then The Right Thing will always happen.

This is wise. It's great that we live in a world where something like this can never go wrong, governments never make mistakes, and all choices are consequence-free.

I suggested import taxes. He said that leads to "arresting ordinary people for engaging in ordinary commerce". Are you really defending this?

That doesn't even make sense. The new taxes would be for imports (or more specifically, outsourced labor), which would not apply for things made domestically. So high wages + new taxes is not the proposed scenario.

It's about making companies choose between the two and hopefully making them cost close to the same in the end.

Some things would be more expensive due to the wage differences,

but I would rather pay more for a product my neighbor made than pay for his unemployment checks.

And the last part about giving more and more money to government is completely ridiculous since it would be no more than we do otherwise.

I like how every one of your arguments starts by assuming someone else's idea leads to arresting innocent people.

The idea was to "due something about outsourcing". What do YOU think government can do to stop it? Ask people really really nice? Or enforce new laws, which is done by arresting as needed.

In some areas. In others it leads to more people with money to buy things, more sales, and therefore lower costs.

USA is just not competitive, because on all work you do, big part is taken and redistributed how current masters of you agree. With minimum wage and high tax everything is expensive. Adding new taxes will only make things worse. Rest of world will enjoy cheap electronics,tshirts and everything, while you will be forced to buy from eachother, everyone of you giving more and more money to gov. To be wasted or corrupted. Or perhaps invested into next war "on terror".