When Congress was considering the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, Ross Perot, a prominent business owner
(and third-party candidate for president in 1992) argued that it
would do no good for the USA to engage in trade with Mexico, since
Mexicans, according to Perot, had incomes that were too low to
allow them to afford American goods. Thus, he claimed, trade
between the two countries would simply be in one direction with
low-wage Mexicans producing and sending...