That is only one component of costs to consider when manufacturing. A big cost to consider where we are not competitive against other countries because of the environmentalist policies, is energy.
There is a huge cost to be compliant with all of the layers of US rules, regulations, laws, statutes, codes and yes, even conforming to political correctness (or fear being picketed/boycotted by gays, blacks, women, native Americans, etc.).
Then there is the insurance aspect of costs because here in the good ole USA, our judicial system awards millions of dollars to those that don't deserve it, and knowing this, companies usually settle (go away money) before trial costing billions of dollars every year.
Don't forget the shipping costs for exports (better to build a brewery abroad, then to have to ship cases and kegs of beer across the pond).
I won't even get into the past practices of certain unions and their work "demands".
And with all of the above, who in their right mind would want to put their capital at risk for the remote chance of (gasp) making a profit. It really isn't as simple as just saying "Bring back manufacturing"
I realize there would be hurdles, and those need to be addressed. If the government can get off it’s posterior and create enterprise zones, it can get off it’ ass and eliminate a lot of redundancy in regulations.
As for the shipping of things out of our nation and those costs, I’m not convinced those sorts of things couldn’t be overcome as well. First of all, if a corporation is going to be selling product in Germany, then open a plant in Germany. I have no problem with that.
What bothers me is that we manufacture in China, and then ship it back here, costing us at every end of the operation.
We give away technology. We lose jobs. We lose federal, state, and local income streams. We can hack all we want at taxation, but it does cost to run our cities, our schools, and maintain infrastructure. We can’t just abandon the support for them.
This calls for reason all the way around. By reducing taxation on entities, the federal government insures there will be more entities to be taxed at reasoned rates.
I don’t know how you do it, but it’s time the Left be dumped out of our government jobs too. There’s no reason why all these agencies as well as our upper education system should be the sole property of the Left.
This nation needs to be revamped. The next time we have control, it’s time to use the battle axe to get the job done. No more standing in place until the Left gains control again and starts off where they left off.