[DannyTN]

Until we cut or eliminate business taxes and most or all Federal regulationss, and truly bring the unemployment rate down

While that might help a little, it's not the real problem. You could eliminate all taxes and regulations and still wouldn't be able to compete against China with people working for $2 a day. And they still have 200 million more people working in the fields for half of that who would love to come in to a factory job.

And you wouldn't really want to eliminate all regulations. You wouldn't want to pollute America the way China has polluted their country. And a responsible buyer wouldn't buy from China until they cleaned up their act. Because they aren't just polluting their own country. They pollution goes into the air and into the oceans.

And you wouldn't want to remove workplace safety protections. When a worker is injured in China they don't complain because there are a million people waiting in line to take their job.

Companies claim they are leaving because of taxes and regulations, because none of those companies are stupid enough to say, "We're leaving to take advantage of cheap labor, but we still are going to sell into the American market."

But I will grant you that the average effective import tariff of 1% is far less than the 10%+ taxes that a domestic producer would pay in employment taxes. So we've created a built in tax incentive to off-shore.

At the very least we should raise the import tariffs to be equal to domestic producer taxes + the cost of supporting the unemployed. And that's just to equal the playing field, before providing any real protection to American industry and workers.

[Kit cat]

Although I wound not want to see workers hurt or our country polluted our government has gone waaaay overboard!! This CRAP needs to stop!!!

[arthurus]

American workers are the most productive in the world. That means with a tax and regulation regimen out of the way the American worker produces more per dollar of wage at the American wage than workers in China produce per dollar of wage. If that were not true then nothing would help American workers live better. Tariffs or exclusions to make up for the onerous burdens placed by the government on American business only change the barriers to prosperity a bit. They would not likely even increase American employment much. Our disadvantage in world trade is exclusively due to the tax and regulation burdens on American business being far the highest among industrialized countries.

Reduce the Burden on American business to a level below that in other countries and American business offshore will return and foreign business will relocate to America. Eliminate the government burden and the prosperity will exceed that of the post Reagan quarter century.

People hear about the low wages overseas but do not hear about the lower efficiency of the overseas worker but don not understand that American business works under a much more onerous load of imposed expense than does business in foreign lands. It is also natural and easy to blame the foreigners for stealing our business when we do not want to admit that we (the government) are doing it to ourselves. It is easier to gripe about furriners than it is to compete.

[arthurus]

Yeah. and we just need to tone down our own march to Socialism a little and increase government control of everything to compensate for the effects of our government control.

[arthurus]

Yeah. and we just need to tone down our own march to Socialism a little and increase government control of everything to compensate for the effects of our government control. We need to increase the contradictions and oxymorons in our system. That will do it.