[HamiltonJay]

The SINGLE biggest producer of jobs is MANUFACTURING, PERIOD!!

For every manufacturing job that exists, 2.6 additional jobs are created.. nothing, nothing creates as much wealth and jobs as manufacturing.

Service industry jobs create something like 1.2 jobs for every job created.

The belief that brewery’s will lay off 20,000 people because they have to pay .022 cents per can vs .02 cents per can is stupid.

That’s literally the raw cost addition to manufacture an aluminum can... And actually its less than that. But 2 tenths of a cent more for a can is going to decimate the beer industry, then the beer industry would not exist.

Doesn’t pass the smell test. What you are looking at is the raw cost of a 24 can case would go up less than a nickel.

[Alberta's Child]

Good post, but one important fact works heavily against your main point.

Manufacturing employment in the U.S. peaked in 1979. By any objective measure -- political, economic, social, etc. -- that year was the LOWEST point in the post-WW2 period of American history.