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Originally Posted by 12clicks
not about taxes?
then tell me, genius, how is the government "pushing our companies over seas"?
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They send jobs over seas for the cheap labor and the fact that don't have to do all the shit they have to do here in the US. Think anyone pays workers comp in China or jumps through the hurdles for worker safety or uses various procedures to protect the environment as we do in the US?
None of that is bad as it's all good, but it puts our companies at a unfair disadvantage with-in our own boarders. We should be putting tariffs on imported goods to allow our own companies to compete with-in our own country, being we do take the extra steps to try and protect workers & our environment.
Taxes are very little compared to the costs of labor and all the added costs that go along with that here in the US. Of course your 1 track mind can't see past taxes and can't see the bigger issues because you only care about what affects yourself.
If the govt wanted to even the playing field for US companies with-in this country, they would only need to charge tariffs on goods imported into this country. Instead our govt has signed away the ability to compete with-in our own country, thanks to so called fair trade agreements with other countries.
It's now cheaper to produce in China and ship it back and taxes are not a very big part of that cost. If we exported and built shit as we did in the past, it would be one thing, but we don't anymore so things need to change.