[DoodleDawg]

As an owner of a manufacturing business I can tell you that the cost of an employee and the massive regulations involved, makes it very hard to set the price of a manufacturer’s product at a competitive level with anyone or any foreign company not under the thumb of the U.S. government regulators.

OK so you have an hourly cost for employee and an hourly cost for regulations. How would you decrease each? For the employee you have wages, benefits, payroll and unemployment taxes. What percentage of the hourly costs are made up by these? What is your solution in that area? Under regulations you have an hourly cost per employee for keeping up with the paperwork. Again, what percentage of the hourly cost is made up by this and what goes in to it?

[DH]

The questions you ask clearly show that you have no experience in running a business; especially a manufacturing business.

If you actually ran a business you would not have to ask the questions you posted. Every one who runs any type of business from manufacturing to sales knows the costs incurred and imposed by government and union regulations.