[factoryrat]

It's not even that. Nobody who makes anything can compete against cheap Asian labor. If you run a business making things, offshore to china, or your business will be doomed from the get-go. Your customers will demand it, your shareholders will demand it, and the banks you finance your operation through will demand it. That's how it works, understand? If you reduced corporate taxes to ZERO, those listed above would still demand that you offshore your operation, for the simple fact that you cannot compete against cheap foreign labor, period. As long as someone else in the world is willing to do YOUR job, for a fraction of your pay, you are considered expendable, and will be discarded for cheaper labor, period. That's how business works, so get used to it.

[max americana]

The very source of America’s war for Independence stemmed from taxes..and hatred for it. Regardless you made relevant points as the core of business is the preservation of it, and workers are just tools and expenses. Only company owners know the reality of this world and those who bitch about it are just plain ole’ fools. It is what it is.