The "Jobs" plan

[Bailey Guns]

1. Governments have a huge impact on economies.
2. How is it unpatriotic to move a business overseas if it's cheaper?
3. What business of yours is it what businesses do with their money?
4. What's wrong with leaving a country if the government of said country takes what you believe to be too much of your money?

and

Why does it cost $5 to make a widget here and only $1 to make it somewhere else?

Instead of penalizing businesses (which is why our economy sucks in the first place) we should incentivize them to stay here in the first place.

Get the government out of business, and unleash the free market.

Bingo! That's the winning solution right there.

The below is totally off the mark and it's part of the problem, not the solution:

until we penalize companies for moving jobs outside of the country we will continue to go broke.

if you can make doodad here for $5 but choose to make offshore at 1$ we need to charge an extra $4 tarrif to remove the lure to move the job of making the doodad offshore.


argue/discuss/debate

tmleadr03 nailed the answer to this one.

The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world at just a hair under 40%. 40 freakin percent, folks. You people are constantly harping on freedom. Then why would you penalize corporations for taking advantage of a better business climate in another country? Why not make it advantageous for companies to do business here? Why not make the US the most business friendly country in the world and take business/production away from other countries?

“United States companies are now in the position of trying to compete in the 21st century world economy with a 20th century tax system,” said Ho. “Dozens of countries around the world—including many of the United States’ closest trading partners—have realized that sky-high corporate tax rates are an economic dead end. Now more than ever, Americans want to see policies that will help create increased growth, more jobs, and higher standards of living – exactly the things that a lower and more streamlined corporate tax system can help achieve.”

Rest of the story HERE.