[Uncle Miltie]

Don’t tell that to Microsoft or google or amazon or Starbucks or costco or Facebook or.....

[central_va]

Amazon is a retail/delivery service. It doesn't create wealth. Once you get the item in hand there is no value added. The wealth(profit) created stays in the country where it was made, unfortunately more and more not the USA.

Microsoft is a software company, the makes a tangible product. Except for the H-1B indentured servants crushing wages, the wealth created stays in the USA.

Starbucks, sells a product, coffee. Unfortunately coffee and bananas do not grow in N.A. So I can see importing them.

Costco = retail = value added, no wealth creation at all.

Facebook is a product - software. I don't use it but many do.