government strangulation = fig leaf to fool Conservative as to what is really happening which is labor arbitrage on an international scale to the lowest bidder. Regulations and taxes have nothing to do wit it. They are cover for corporate welfare.
Its not either or, I don’t think.
You have to create wealth, not just shuffle the same dollars around and the only way to do that is to create, usually via manufacturing something or by selling goods overseas at prices that bring net profits, such as agricultural products like the kiwis mentioned elsewhere.
So if a Proctor and Gamble is headquartered here but manufactures in Mexico, does that show as “American production”?
Because everyone loves to pull out charts showing how manufacturing is growing her in country but it sure doesn’t seem to match a lot of folks perceptions.