[OneWingedShark]

> Massive corporate taxation, limitless legal vulnerability, crushing environmental regulation and pro-Union arbitrary Government: these are why industry chooses to locate away from the USA.
>
> Remove these burdens from the private sector and the industry will return.

It’s not likely to happen so long as we have big-businesses endorsing a sort of Fascism from the government; that amounts to industry endorsing all those things:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3016829/posts

[agere_contra]

Yes: there are many companies that are in bed with the Government. They gain hand-over-fist from the crushing of competition and the flow of subsidy to losers.

They don't become any more competitive of course - they become less competitive because they become acclimated to an environment where the Government picks winners and losers on the basis of union membership and green ideology.

Fortunately economic reality is bigger even than the US Government. When the Dollar Federal Reserve Note's reserve status is lost then the resulting horrific train-wreck should have at least one salutary effect - the Government's ability to endlessly buck reality will have been destroyed.