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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Over the past decade, the average American has seen their standard of living stagnate or decrease while the wealthy have seen their lifestyles increase at an accelerated rate. The wealthy have made those gains AT THE EXPENSE of the average American. By outsourcing jobs in order to lower costs, investing in emerging markets instead of investing in America, and gambling on risky financial products which caused a collapse in both the housing and stock markets which wiped out the Average American's 401k plan and any equity they had in their homes.
So this isn't about simple math and graphs. It's about the wealthy making money at the expense of the average American.
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The other side of your argument is that there was no incentive to keep jobs here in the US, as doing business overseas is cheaper both because they don't have to deal with unions and pensions, and mountains of red tape. The average american wouldn't accept a lower wage and would rather be on the dole, so they took the job to those that are willing to do it.
What are the incentives to keep jobs here? All I'm hearing is tax the snot out of the companies and rich people who run companies and then give more money to those with no jobs.
This is the other side of the philosophy that is at the crux of the problem.
How about 25% import taxes on raw materials that are easily available in this country, giving companies a zero tax on money they bring in from offshore accounts if they use the money to directly pay someone's salary. How about the US govt' matching $ for $ aany American company making anything here in the US by Americans for another "Buy American" media campaign. Us gov't has no money to spend on this? Redirect money from the bullshit wars we are in, or simply fix the fraud in all the entitlement programs to pay for it.
These are things to help americans. The real problem is there's no true patriotism anymore, even the saying of a pledge of allegiance to the US is being banned in schools.