[USS Alaska]

It’s not taxes, regulations, unions or the other smoke screens. Green jobs and lower taxes are election placebos. We’ve had prosperity with higher taxes and stronger unions

That's true right after WWII when we had destroyed all the manufacturing facilities in the major countries that we could charge any thing that we wanted for our manufactured goods.

Union wages and taxes were non-issues because the companies could pass them on with impunity.

[ex-snook]

"That's true right after WWII when we had destroyed all the manufacturing facilities in the major countries that we could charge any thing that we wanted for our manufactured goods. "

Now we have destroyed our own.