What is this GOPe problem with immigration, dammit?
Why can't The Club for Growth and the Chamber of Commerce discuss with us what they need for growth, why they cannot find what the need from the native population and we go from there?
Regulatory and increased overhead on labor (Obamacare, etc.) without ready access to credit (remember that a few years ago?) made the biz community go, “FINE! We’ll import H-1B labor! We’ll outsource! We’ll offshore operations! We’ll lay people off!”
The tariff stuff is a very hard sell without complete elimination of income and corporate taxes. Small businesses design products and have them manufactured overseas too. I’m totally simplifying this example, but they can’t afford union labor or starting up a factory to make $5 iPhone cases. So a huge corporation wouldn’t have a problem absorbing the costs while the little guy panics at the mention of tariffs.