What would it take to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.?

[frodo82801]

Solutions?

[chel0524]

I think the government needs to make it illegal for companies to be overseas. If they are an American based company and want to sell their goods in this country, they should BE in this country.

[jeshurun]

that's tough because I don't think americans can compete with the super low wages of other countries.

Its rather drastic but I think severely limiting imports by law might work.

[Issachar]

I think the government needs to make it illegal for companies to be overseas. But that would be government intervention in private business. What needs to happen, imho, is business owners would need to see an advantage to staying in the US and manufacture here. Kick out foreign manufacturing somehow, perhaps via some cost to operate here. Let each nation produce it's own products and trade with one another for things they don't have but need or want. Nationalism with trade is not isolationism. This concept is the basis of the Old World. This 21st century finds the nations of the world much more integrated as the shapers of the world bring things more and more to a globalist way of life; a NWO. Imho, manufacturing as well as many other industries are or will be global in nature. It won't reverse. It's the times we live in.

Issachar

[Katrina]

G-d Bless the USA.

I'm all for;

"Home" Made
"Home" Bought
"Home" Sold

If we don't make it right here in USA...I don't need it. I flip everything over to see where it originates from.

[Issachar]

If we don't make it right here in USA...I don't need it. I flip everything over to see where it originates from. That is a noble sentiment, imho, but impossible to fully follow. Well, impossible if you use anything electronic or drive a car (even "American made" cars are filled with items manufactured overseas), etc. Even the few electronic items made in the US are filled with chips manufactured in China, Phillipines, Vietnam, Singapore, etc. We could do what you said as much as in our power though.

Issachar

[frodo82801]

It's almost impossible to buy exclusively U.S. made. Is there more than a small percentage of clothing made in the U.S.?

The Fair Tax folks talked to businesses and asked what they would do if the Fair Tax was implemented. Most of them said they'd bring manufacturing back.

[Issachar]

Two things .... Imho, the so called "fair tax" will never be implemented because government spending cannot survive off of that and we all know that government spending will never go down long term ...

And, help me understand why businesses would come back because of a fair tax? I think I understand some of the incentive tax wise, but most US manufacturing that has moved off shore is due to labor costs. How would that change under a "fair tax"?

Issachar

[Nova]

Less government regulation (or wiser government regulation.)

Tariffs work. But we are so dependent of foreign investors to prop up the dollar, that the government is unlikely to go that route.

[HisAlways]

G-d Bless the USA.

I'm all for;

"Home" Made
"Home" Bought
"Home" Sold

If we don't make it right here in USA...I don't need it. I flip everything over to see where it originates from.

Good for you, but that is a hard task. I find very little made in the USA.