I surmise from your rant that the threat of “cap and trade”,huge health cost increases and volumes of new regulations both on the state and federal levels, corporate income taxes which close to the highest in the world and many other costs have nothing to do with outsourcing. If labor costs were the only reason for outsourcing, outsourcing would shrink to a trickle.
Cap and trade, Obamacare, socialist taxation does impact businesses to move overseas. I agree with you on that. If all that did not exist, corporate America still wants to go overseas if a Chinese worker and Indian worker can do the work of an American at fraction of costs. Why? One percent are money junkies. Liberals can never answer what is a fair percentage for taxes, one percent types can never answer when is enough when it comes to making money. If they make enough money that it takes 100 life times to spend, they still want more. In fact psychologists just finished profiling US CEO’s and find at least 20 percent of them exhibit sociopath behavior that will eventually lead to the companies ruin.
Regulations have been effective used by corporate PR to excuse for moving overseas once Main Street Americans start to protest politically. Just like Wall Street bankers spin that the 1 percent produces most of the jobs in America when they already since 2008 killed 11 million American jobs with their reckless investing and leveraging. Problem is CEO are money junkies. Why? Remember in the old days if you went to a prestiges college, morality (religion) was part of your training. God has been removed from all of our education. All we now graduate is educated menaces. Talented, but amoral men who move up the ranks of gov and corporations who would lead nation and corporation to ruin. Unfortunately Main Street Americans are forced to pay the consequences of their evil.