Quote: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.

 

no what I'm telling you is if a company is forced to pay the 2nd highest tax rate in the WORLD, combined with higher wages and higher import tariffs all things your advocating they'll say there's other markets to do business.

 

The ones that do stay here (Retail, Automakers, Restaurants, Manufacturing) they'll look to REDUCE payroll liabilities it would have the opposite outcome you're suggesting.

 

Explain to me how ending free trade, raising import tariffs and leaving the corporate tax rate the 2nd highest in the world would encourage companies to stay in the United States and then ADD jobs to the market!?

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