[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.

[ninenot]

Another suggestion:

The President should state that "offshore manufacturing interests of US-based companies will NOT be protected by US civil or military authority, nor will the US allow lawsuits in its Courts over disputes in offshore countries...nor will the US enforce damage collections awarded in offshore actions on behalf of companies engaged in substantial offshore manufacturing."

In other words, you wanna go there with the jobs--you no longer get our Army to back you up, nor our Courts to try your tort problems. Stuff it.

The exceptions, of course: petroleum, critical Defense-raw materials.