—”The obvious solution here is to offshore all manufacturing to the Communist Third World, import it back duty free and sell it at first world prices. With the additional profit going to the corporations stockholders. < /SARC >”
Again, these sound like words of a Democrat (woe me, the “Evil Corporations”).
Let’s for a moment ask yourself WHERE does that “additional profit” going to the evil corporations and stockholders GO IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY?
That money is used to buy goods and services or investments — probably a lot of which is in our local economy to buy houses, cars, etc.
In economics, one has to think of all net results, not just the surface.
Tell that to the millions of unemployed manufacturing workers, most of whom were non union. The devastated towns all over in ever state. All to make the 1% even more secure at the expense of the entire manufacturing sector. No thanks,, it is not sustainable.