Quote: You're nuts man, you can't have the 2nd highest tax rate in the WORLD, git rid of free trade and raise import tarriffs and really thing business is going to stay state side. This isn't the middle of the century, there's just as much capital for companies to chase in Europe and Asia as there is in America. We're not the only dog and pony show in town anymore. Companies that did stay here would reduce labor as much as possible to cover the new cost, you'd have a massive wave of automated workers ( self check out lanes, drone delivery's, robot manufacturing) but the last thing a company is going to do is take on new payroll when their taxes and tarriffs go up.

 

What you're basically saying is you think that if the profit isn't high enough here then the corporations will just leave and allow someone else to have the profits, which is absurd.

 

You're living in a land of make-believe. Corporations chase every last dollar.

 

Even China is fine by them, tons of companies are trying to somehow get into China's economy even though profit there is almost impossible thanks to the fact that their government basically runs all of their industry too.

 

You can choose to believe that what I'm saying is wrong, but it's simply not. There's plenty of production capacity in the US, the problem is the government allowed for all of it to be undercut by cheap labor in Mexico and China. Get rid of that and industry won't say "well I'd rather not make the billions of dollars I could make in America because I'd have to pay higher taxes than I ideologically believe I should have to pay"
they'll take the money and the marketshare and complain about it after the fact.

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