50% of the costs and 80% of time spent in new construction is wasted gaining "permissions" and "inspections", from local, county, state and national bureaucracies.
Native manufacturing was killed, simply by incremental and progressive infliction of more onerous government controls.
And now, everyone stands, innocently blinking, in the wreckage, and whines that, "It's the greedy corporations!"
Well said!
The major cause of the problem is that the Democrats have spent 50 years installing blocks and “environmental regulations” that ban manufacturing and construction in the United States.
Absolutely right on. I contend one of the reasons pharmaceuticals have been off shored is enviro regs for chemical manufacturers made it all but impossible to make them here.