RE: It is time for the GOP to foursquare, support hiring Americans.
Everybody is for hiring Americans. The question is this-— how do you get those overseas jobs back?
In other words, how are Americans going to compete in terms of salaries?
We need to do something about our tax rates on imports.
I’ll not say what, but the fact that imports are treated the same as domestic goods, is catastrophic to American jobs.
It really is not the cost of salaries that kills American jobs. It is the cost of Government overhead and intervention that kills American jobs. With a Congress that believes in spreading the wealth to underdeveloped Nations there is no hope of getting them to back off. They are squashing the American job market intentionally.
The solution is not mainly tied to salaries, but instead on production time and cost. I have one heck of a time getting a machine shop to make prototypes of designs without having to pay thousands in addition to having to order hundreds or thousands to get anywhere near the cost of having ones and twos made offshore. Most times I can have the part in hand before the G-coders even get the first code check done, all because they will not upgrade their software to generate cut paths in minutes instead of weeks.
Why can they not upgrade? Mostly because they get absolutely no credit tax wise for doing so. Our government killed the tax credits for modernization and upgrades to keep production at its highest which brings lower prices. Their policies sent the work offshore. So when I go offshore, the time to get the job done reduces the labor cost tremendously. I can pay for someone to load the model file and let the computer do the work in minutes or I can pay to have someone manually produce G-code from prints and drawings for a week. What choice would you make?