In many states, the recovery is making the income gap worse

Washington Post ^ | November 18 at 6:00 am | Niraj Chokshi

[Cringing Negativism Network]

The income gap in America has been widening for decades and the modest three-year recovery did little to change that, according to new Census data.

[SamAdams76]

I agree that tariffs in place of income tax is the way to go but our government has grown too fat on the backs of our labor and has no desire to upset the apple cart.

Further, consumers have likewise gotten too used to cheap durable goods and have no desire to go back to the days when a television or a refrigerator was considered to be a major purchase. Now when a television stops working, they dump it in the trash and buy a better model for even cheaper than what they paid for the original one.

[servantboy777]

>>Most of our durable goods are manufactured there and sold here at a low price that American-made goods just cannot compete with.<<

Yes, we can! The reason we cannot compete effectively is because there is no level playing field. Americans are held to a different standard than the Chicoms. If Americans demanded they be held to the same environmental/worker safety standards....we could very well compete.

Remember...it's the liberal left unions, liberal environmental wackos, globalist and the politicians with campaign cash hanging out their pockets that are to blame.

American workers, American ingenuity, resourcefulness that make us great. Get the corruption and big brother gubbamint out of the way and you will see the finest products in the world in which no country can compete.

Again...want to support child slave labor? Wanna support environmental disaster? Support the degradation of the American middle class?

Then be one of those average Americans that care only about price. Slice the throat of your own.

Boycott cheap Chinese goods. When American corporations see the impact to their bottom line...they will adjust accordingly.

Hey...no offense, it's just business, right?

[central_va]

Further, consumers have likewise gotten too used to cheap durable goods and have no desire to go back to the days when a television or a refrigerator was considered to be a major purchase. Now when a television stops working, they dump it in the trash and buy a better model for even cheaper than what they paid for the original one.

Tariffs do not need to be draconian, a 10% duty isn't going to destroy the flat screen market but it might make one of our brave "Captains of Industry™" consider new plant in a R-T-W state instead of Hunan Province.

[servantboy777]

Correct. In the end...we Americans pay dearly.

Can’t tell ya how many cheap Chinese products I’ve bought and had to replace over and over again because they do not last.

I remember going into my granddad’s garage...he had tools and such that are still being used...TODAY. Tools made forty or fifty years ago.

Quality over quantity. I’ll gladly pay a few bucks more to help support Americans and get a better product. You bet.

[precisionshootist]

Even though we are in the depths economic decline they still call it a recovery. Total economic collapse is on the horizon yet the "recovery" continues.

Lies, Lies, Lies

[bassmaner]

Regulatory agencies with their boot on the neck of American industry, unions, and the highest corporate tax rate in the world are the reasons why American jobs have gone overseas.

Reduce the power of the regulators, bust the unions (repeal the Wagner Act), and get rid of corporate income tax completely (corporations don't pay taxes anyway: they're merely unpaid tax collectors that pass along the additional cost of taxation to consumers): then you'll get unprecedented job creation and a repeat of the Reagan-era boom.

[bert]

That’s irrelevant

[Wuli]

in order to lower the income gap

power, both political and financial

needs more decentralization