I would like to see more manufacturing jobs here in the United States, too. How many manufacturing jobs did we have here in 1960 and how many do we have now? If all those jobs left to China because the wages were lower, how can we overcome that? Pay our workers less? We could slap a tariff on Chinese products, but then the price of the products to Americans goes up. How do we overcome that?
The Democrats profit by having more government employees. Government employees CONSUME tax money. This tax money comes, for the most part, from the private/business sector. Every dollar taken from the private sector to pay a government employee’s wages, is a dollar a business can’t use to improve its competition with foreign companies. Even the taxes taken from wages actually hurts the business, too. Would the employees be happier and work harder if they received the money taken from their wages for taxes? I think so.
The sad part is that the Democrats know this, but they don’t care. Government workers vote Democrat. Welfare recipients vote Democrat. The Democrats will destroy the private sector in this country to get elected.
blueunicorn6 said:
“We could slap a tariff on Chinese products,”
Bingo.
They tariff ours. America needs jobs.
Bring back US jobs. Now.
A ten percent import duty would raise billions. Offsetting income tax rate reductions would be the best thing for America, eliminating the progressive income tax altogether would be GREAT.