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Originally Posted by gimpy117
I can agree with AVGwarhawk here. Anyone who says offshoring was a good idea obviously hasn't lived in MI, or seen flint, or Detroit. It's one of the reasons the middle class was destroyed, and the rich got richer.
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That's what happens when you regulate companies out of the country while attempting to keep normalized trade relations with the rest of the world.
Everytime we raise the minimum wage we give more of a competitive advantage to other nations. On the other hand, we don't want sweatshops. And yet, people are used to cheap Chinese goods and don't want to pay more either.
I would suggest tax breaks for corporations who can efficiently produce goods domestically, but man, tax breaks for those evil corporations?
Liberal economic policies have painted us into a corner. That's not to say that Republicans have been much better. What we need is a CONSERVATIVE economic approach. Conserve industry. Conserve jobs.
While I think that AVG goes too far in any proposal to shut down a private American company, I don't see a problem with hefty tariffs for imported goods and tax breaks for companies that purchase domestic goods for sale. In fact, that would help equalize prices.
Fixing our economic woes involves taking a very xenophobic, America-first approach.