make it illegal for any US citizen to own a business overseas this is completely unnecessary and just creates legislation that undermines personal freedoms, why can't an american citizen own a business overseas?    If you want to protect national production and employment all you need to do is make a proper use of importing tariffs and taxes.    National products have preference, period. If some item can be imported from a 3rd world country where people work in sweatshops for much less than what it costs to produce it locally, it's going to get imported and it's going to either lower work and life quality or put out the local producers out of business. The government simply should make it even using importing taxes, make it so that the cheap foreign product cost the same or more than the local product after taxes, buyers will naturally prefer the local product if the price is the same or simply will go for the cheaper one.    That alone will make manufacture operations overseas not viable, the overseas producers either invest in the U.S. and create jobs in the U.S. if they want to tap the U.S. market or they'll be out of business from competence by local producers. Compare that to what we have now that local producers that do invest in the U.S. and create american jobs go out of business by unfairly cheap products produced in countries where quality of life and working conditions are sub-human.