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2 edits | There are tariffs on goods... Too bad there aren't tariffs on labor. There needs to be incentive rather than punishment for U.S. companies to continue operating here. E-Loan certainly isn't the only one. People criticized Ross Perot about the giant sucking sound but the principle is the same. You can't have $30-$50K a year US labor directly competing against $1 labor and expect us to compete. At the same time, regulation, lack of tort reform, high worker's comp rates all create the incentive to fire Americans even if the wages were equal. And after all this outsourcing have we seen massive cuts in pricing as a benefit? Are we suddenly getting much superior service? ELN's service way cheaper? Loans from E-Loan cheaper? Hell no, corporations just pocket the savings and give a bit to politicians who continue these lop-sided trade policies. E-Loan is just another example of this much much larger problem.
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| Re: There are tariffs on goods... quote:
Too bad there aren't tariffs on labor.
There needs to be incentive rather than punishment for U.S. companies to continue operating here.
corporations just pocket the savings and give a bit to politicians who continue these lop-sided trade policies
You kind of have a non-sequitur here. First you lament the lack of Government control (tariffs, which are are government control in the form of punishments). Then you say we need incentives rather than punishments (What type of non-punishment type of incentives do you have in mind?).
So, if we have more governmental regulation and control over those evil corporations are we not in essence centralizing power and giving more control to the corporations who are greasing the politicians?
Why is the corporation always the evil one?
An employee demands more money and claims that the employer is taking advantage of them. Evil Corporation!
Investors demand that a corporation maximize their profits and again, the corporation that is the evil party for complying with the demands of the investors.
How many of you Microsoft Millionaires out there hate Evil Microsoft for giving you a job and making you rich?
I'm confused.
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At the same time, regulation, lack of tort reform, high worker's comp rates all create the incentive to fire Americans even if the wages were equal.
Government, government and government.
Government should stay our of business. Sure, there will be problems, but the market has a way of correcting itself in a more efficient fashion than government.
If you keen on Tariffs, you might want to read up on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 1930. | |
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1 edit | Re: There are tariffs on goods... Tariffs penalizing labor imports no matter who they're from. Non-punishment incentives would include increased tax relief for offering healthcare, relaxing of burdensome regulation, quicker depreciation schedules for worker operated equipment...things that make employing people here easier and more affordable for business. In the long term any lost tax "revenue" is recouped by having more people paying taxes. IMHO, it's way better to have way more people paying a little, that a few people paying a lot.
No one said corporations are evil other than you. They are put into the outsourcing position by unfair trade policies that allow countries who ignore basic human rights like China, or near slave wage paying foreign business to flood the US markets. It's not enough to have trade. You have to have FAIR trade. The only thing free trade does is reduce our standard of living to the lowest bidder.
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