[commonerX]

If companies are going to go offshore for cheaper labor then they should be selling those products here cheaper.

""""They are! Imagine what your every day consumer products would cost if the manufacturer was paying average U.S. wages. I don't believe there are more than a handful, if any, American companies that produce televisions. Televisions!, that most American of appliances. Is that a problem? I don't think so. US capital that was poured into an increasingly commodified industry (consumer electronics) could then be used to discover new products and ideas.""""


That is bull, a company will sell its product in the US for what ever the market will bare. Regardless is the production process was made cheaper, they just get a bigger profit margin.

I don't necessarily think these companies should be forced to stay in the US, but if they want to take their companies else where then they should have to pay a heavy tariff to bring the product back in, therefore making it a wash if you take your company somewhere else. Also they should not be protected by the US government if they run into a bad situation. You made you bed now sleep in it. The US consumes a large percentage of the world goods and they wouldn't just say, oh, then we wouldn't sell our product in the US.

[A. Pole]

I don't necessarily think these companies should be forced to stay in the US, but if they want to take their companies else where then they should have to pay a heavy tariff to bring the product back in, therefore making it a wash if you take your company somewhere else. Also they should not be protected by the US government if they run into a bad situation. You made you bed now sleep in it. The US consumes a large percentage of the world goods and they wouldn't just say, oh, then we wouldn't sell our product in the US.

This is the solution.