[Texasforever]

Another issue is that many of the jobs being lost couldn't have been exported without the American taxpayer being forced to subsidize the infrastructure that made moving the job profitable.

Woah!. That is exactly what created the IT boom. What did you mean by that statement?

[WFTR]

I'm saying that the American government shouldn't be building roads, bridges, airports, railways, etc. around the world to facilitate the manufacture of goods in other countries. If we decide that subsidizing infrastructure to help an industry is good policy, we should at the very least be subsidizing that infrastructure in our own country so that we are the ones enjoying the jobs created by that infrastructure.

I'm saying that I'm tired of people who try to praise free market capitalism and cheer the movement of jobs to other countries when the manufacturing couldn't have happened in other countries without Americans being forced to give tax dollars to the government to build the infrastructure that made that movement possible. If someone wants to be opposed to the government trying to influence where things are made, one should also be an opponent of governmental efforts to make it possible to make things in other places. If all Americans are taxed to provide the capital to make industry in other places possible, then all Americans should receive the return on that investment.