“It is THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that is robbing Americans of jobs and opportunities.”
I suppose people like you are helpless when it comes to what is now called free trade. Your read something and it is made to seem that the only thing to do is to lower taxes, remove regulations that strangle industry, etc. That is not why all these companies are moving to Mexico. It is cheap labor.
The United States built the greatest economic engine in world history using protective tariffs. It only makes sense when the world is not on an equal footing.
Of course get the Federal government out of the way, but that is just part of the problem.
Before the Civil War, Northern industrialists worried about the South building factories and running them using slave labor. Their fear was the main cause of the Civil War. It was these industrialists who initiated the Underground Railroad.
Now the industrialists are reversing the tactics, and moving factories out of the United States to foreign countries to take advantage of low wages. Ford is moving to Mexico because they will play only three dollars per hour.
In case you haven’t noticed, these companies are NOT, I repeat are NOT, lobbying Congress to get out of their business, they are lobbying Congress to impose MORE “free” trade so they can continue de-industrializing the United States.
If they were at all concerned about your government issues, they would bring to bear pressure on Congress to change it. They are not doing so.
If all regulations were removed, they would still have to pay a living wage, and they don’t want to. Taxes? Taxes are ALWAYS passed on to the consumer.
Yes, exactly, and when you see them lined up in the halls of congress and the drinking saloons on capitol hill and K-street you will understand the magnitude of the challenge.
Business costs of course always include labor costs. That is why minimum wage is on the list of UNCONSTITUTIONAL federal interference that must go.