The ultimate impact of foreign slave labor on US free labor boils down to this: Is free labor superiority per hour more than counterbalanced by labor that can be flogged, worked to death, and quickly replaced? Is there slave labor with which no free labor can compete? If your answer is no, then go on buying cheap goods produced by slave labor, because it will have no consequences for the US standard of living. But if the real answer is yes, then buying slave-made goods paves the road to slavery for America.