If you have been paying attention to FR threads. You would know there is more manufactureing occuring in the USA than in years past.
much of the manufacturing that moved overseas is human labor intensive jobs. The garment industry has been gone for a long time.
That did not leave because of taxation, it left because it was simply more profitable to pay foreign workers to make the stuff and ship it back to the USA.
This is no different than the California Gold Rush Miners who shipped their laundry to china for cleaning because it was cheeper even when factoring the shipping.
To argue the FairTaxScam is a silver bullet that will fix a non-existent problem is laughable at best. We do not live in the 1900’s any more. Municipal entities give tax breaks all the time but that does not guarantee a corporation will HQ in that place. (see Boeing.)
That did not leave because of taxation, it left because it was simply more profitable to pay foreign workers to make the stuff and ship it back to the USA.
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and our workers are making more money
Yeah, facts can be a tough thing to overcome. Mississippi has a new Nissan plant and soon a new Toyota plant. No tax complaints I can see.
“To argue the FairTaxScam is a silver bullet that will fix a non-existent problem is laughable at best.”
http://www.fairtax.org/PDF/Open_Letter.pdf
Then argue with this link. I’m not an economist. Are you?
I live in Seattle. Washington State nearly lost Boeing’s assembly and manufacturing operations.
The only thing that kept Boeing in the State were tax breaks. So your example is BS.
What else ya got? Hot Rolexes off the street?