[finnman69]

I firmly believe that this is going to be a major election issue, and we had best get to work on fixing the problem!

The only way to fix this is to reward, not punish companies into keeping jobs here.

[oceanview]

you have to do both, reward and punish. punish some with taxation, and take the money you get from them and reward the others.

[LS]

But you cannot simply "reward" companies for keeping jobs that don't add value. That is how France got into the position it is in. Ditto Japan---the Japanese insisted that their corporations hold onto workers well past their ability to add value, and their industries collapsed.

[MatthewViti]

"Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection."
-- House Speaker Newt Gingrich, at a President's Day Republican fundraiser, May 1998