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The object of manufacturing goods, whither they be intermediary component parts or finished products, should be delegated to the most cost efficient and reliable quality producers. Who wants to buy a USA made tablet for $900?
If the USA is interested in life quality advancement and occupational advancement: The people with the education and experience that leads to low skill-set manufacturing work are obsoleted by lower cost and more efficient global workers. We need free occupational education to qualify people, younger students as well as re-trainable adult workers, for contemporary post-industrial society's new jobs. There will always be work in the building trades, capital goods maintenance and repair -- and sweeping floors and waiting tables, fast food and lower paying retail trades. So, if that is all your education will allow you to do -- you made your choices now live with them.
A college degree in general bullshit will qualify its recipient to end up in waste-case soylent green future. On the other hand, someone with a contemporary, and relevant, occupational education, for example; as a transport mechanic or a computer coder will always have a decent paying job -- that is a post-industrial world education.
In a post-industrial society you do not need assembly line workers or lathe operators like we needed in 1950. Those jobs still exist but in Asia delegated to the most cost-efficient lower paid workers. If you want work in those occupations move to China compete with the workers there -- they have your skill-set ... But their reward is an extra fish head in their rice bowl ...
Sorry, I don't want the tax of a $900 tablet when I can get one for $100 to $300 made in China. This sort of thing is a hidden tax -- pay more for goods to employ domestic workers who for all purposes are overpaid and government-policy-subsidized with a low skill set.
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