[ninenot]

I'll grant your 90% estimate (I'd heard numbers like that before...)

So what?

Actually, even if you took out all the REALLY stupid regs and eliminated C-Corp taxation entirely (a VERY good thing to do...) you still have a problem: certain other countries dumping all kinds of crap into rivers, skies, etc., not to mention certain other countries dumping the dead bodies of laborers into the same places.

All that flapjaw from GWB about "establishing Democracy" in such exotic places as Iraq--and he can't "establish reasonable standards" anyplace else?

Well--he can't. We cannot force PRC, Brazil, India, or Malaysia to accept minimum standards of EPA/OSHA/FLSA. But we CAN tell them to drop dead until they do so.

[gooleyman]

Actually, even if you took out all the REALLY stupid regs and eliminated C-Corp taxation entirely (a VERY good thing to do...) you still have a problem: certain other countries dumping all kinds of crap into rivers, skies, etc., not to mention certain other countries dumping the dead bodies of laborers into the same places.

We can't control those countries, even the nuts who wrote this plan agree to that. We lose even more control when we continue to chase our companies into the arms of these Jezebel countries. If a company has the bulk of his factories in countries you mentioned, he's going to lobby hard for Congress and the President NOT to do anything that jeopardizes his operations and people in those countries. And believe me his money speaks loudly to them. Much louder than we can on this forum.

We must lower the taxes and regulation and our manufacturers will return here, provide the jobs that people argue for, and return us to having more control over these other countries. I think that will go a long way to making them straighten up too.