Hogwash

Posted on: December 4, 2016 at 09:14:16 CT

a) state governments use tax incentives daily to lure, retain, etc. corporate HQ and facilities

b) You have a choice - continue to pile up massive debt and have cheap products manufactured in countries operating in an outside economy at an unfair advantage to US companies (and that advantage is DIRECTLY DUE TO THE US GOVT'S PRIOR AND CURRENT INTERVENTION VIA CORPORATE TAXES AND REGULATIONS)

or

Pay more for products and services and stop having the US Govt funding that process - and reduce the US debt at the expense of those outside economies (china, mexico, india, etc.) which are propped up by US policies and which operate in a wholly different "free market" that US companies operate in.


Your analysis is completely and utterly ignoring the US debt, how running massive trade deficits and essentially US Sponsoring of sending manufacturing to cheap labor countries (with tariff policy, tax policy, environmental regulation, structural/financial regulations etc. and printing cash).

you're still thinking in terms of a "global" economy and the US has an economy inside of that global economy and you aren't protecting "Free trade" and "free business decisions" - you'r mistaktenly protecting "this point in time, highly regulated unfair, highly intervened in" business.

There is no "free market" or "companies free choice" to protect - US companies aren't free from US policy which currently works to drive them to offshore in the first place.

Edited by 90Tiger at 09:16:30 on 12/04/16