...which foreign investor would be prepared to suffer such fate while investing in US stock and real estate?
...it would be a deranged economic policy that would ensure
a. loss of purchasing power for all Americans
b. complete shunning of US Treasury subscription
c. mass exodus on US assets
d. drying of foreign capital investment
e. end of reserve currency as we know it
...so much losses just to get "even" on trade with other countries? Trade is just one equation in GDP