The United States still manufactures the best guitars in the world. They are very expensive because they take a lot of man hours and man hours in the United States are very costly.
You want to bring back manufacturing into the United States? Then we either lower our wages down to third world rates, or we introduce tariffs.
Either that or just make sure Americans buy American built stuff. We can’t compete with people who make 50 cents an hour when we have to pay them 100 times that.
Are we as Americans willing to pony up the bucks to buy a widget made in America that costs $100 when we can get it from China for $5?
That is not how it works and I've explained to you that labor is only 10% of the retail cost of any item. You are being obdurate, again.
So if a guitar costs $1000.00 and labor is 10%(that is high labor is usually 7%) then a slave produced guitar still costs $900.00 plus shipping.
I don't think so. The regulatory environment discourages small business formation. I read about it and I live it.
Anybody who has tried to operate a business, anyone who has encountered the business end of government should realize that involving government in business is toxic to business.
There are reasons manufacturing has been offshored. I don't see any discussion of those reasons here.
At least you can count on support from the union bosses...doesn't that make you pause, even a little?