I don’t need to. I am American manufacturing...
The fact that the U.S. taxes corporate income is not salient to the argument you started. Your assertion that I was wrong (ignorant)in my initial reply may hinge on that argument, but that doesn’t mean I need to entertain it.
I’m part of the outsourcing. The company that employs me, is currently headquartered outside the U.S. as a response to those tax issues.
That does not, in any way bear on the fact that actual U.S. jobs (productive jobs, that actually pay a living wage) are in direct competition with those “free-standing foreign subsidiaries” based on cheap labor alone.
Quod erat demonstrandum. The fact that you remain ignorant of how our corporate tax code encourages our corporations to establish subsidiaries overseas (Ford Europe, anyone?) means that you don't have to consider that our corporate tax code does. Beautiful in its simplicity.