Your problem is you can't even comprehend the English language.
I said Compliance costs as well as healthcare retirement training etc.
You really just prattle on and prove yourself wrong over and over again.
You know like, the USA is a NET EXPORTER of Crude Oil hahahahah
The major LABOR related costs in the USA are not Salary. They are compliance costs, healthcare costs, safety regs costs and retirement costs. All of those are heavily encumbered with government rules and regs and so on. You literally have to hire people to satisfy all the paperwork and compliance BS. Not to mention someone to deal with the insurance and retirement stuff."
Okay, fine. But if it's not compliance, you can't blame government for it. Companies did that voluntarily. That's just part of the wage structure. So when I compare $17/hour U.S. manufacturing labor costs to Chinese $0.17/hour, I'm actually leaving out all those extra voluntary benefits like retirement, and health plans. Include the cost of those voluntary items in our wages, and the wage differential just got worse.
Of course if we offshore all our jobs, we will be out from under all those voluntary benefits that American companies used to offer.
Is that the America you want to live in? One where American companies offer no more benefits that Chinese companies currently do?
Low tariffs result in a race to off-shore our industries and to lower the real wages and benefits of Americans workers to third world status.