Where are the jobs? They are in China. Jobs have been on the exit lane during both administrations. Bush making China a preferred permanent favorite trading partner put job exporting on steroids. It’s not ‘regulations’, ‘high taxes’ or other smoke screens. It’s cheap labor that produces the incentives. Americans have to either live with 3rd world wages and living conditions to exist in a world-wide economy or find a way to equalize the wage differential.
The answer is simple, immediate and effective:
Import tariffs.
Significant import tariffs. Perhaps 100% - enough to actually drive decision makers to make the decision to build things in the United States of America.
Tariffs which will effectively incent making things here, and will bring in tariff revenue we can replace taxation with.
Lower taxes. American jobs. Sorry anyone who simply insists on buying imported crap will pay more at Walmart.
Aww.
People who buy things made in America won’t pay more. That’s how things should have been all along.
Build it here. Grow it here. Drill it out of the ground here.
Or pay a tariff.