OldDeckHand never promoted any such assumption. Indeed his primary point is that the bulk of government imposed business costs are outside the tax structure:
To see manufacturing return to the US in any substantive way, the federal and state governments will have to address the underlying fundamental reasons that manufacturing left in the first place - Regulatory burden, to especially include environmental regulation, the labor burden associated with the strong union presence in most of our Rustbelt states, and the high costs of health care and energy. Without addressing those concerns, our corporate tax rates are meaningless to our manufacturing base.
This is dead on. Even back in the mid 90's I worked at a plant where waste disposal for glycol (which is made from steeric acid rendered from cattle and which will composte to dirt if poured out on leaves) exceeded the labor costs in the plastics and diecasting departments at the plant where I worked. and that was just costs imposed on one biodegradable chemical. We wont go into costs that were then imposed on vent stacks.
No amount of tinkering with tax rates or putting more low interest loans out there addresses this greater problem. Those things are moot.
I never once mentioned anything about "putting out more low interest loans". I mentioned venture capitalists, not low interest lenders. Huge difference. I would suggest that you start and run a company with 150 employees that has international scope, as I did for more than 20 years. Perhaps then you would fully understand the burden placed on small business by gubmint. There is no better teacher than experience......