The corporate war on the middle class is a national security issue.

[baldguy]

And should be treated as such:

-Companies that move jobs overseas should be subject to 100% tax on the amount they spend overseas.

-Companies that move jobs here should earn a tax break.

-Companies that do business domestically should pay taxes on the income they earn domestically. No more Cayman Island PO Box addresses.

-Only US-based companies and US-manufactured products should be allowed to do business with federal, state & local govts - with preferential treatment for unionized companies.

-No more H1-B visas. If a company needs workers with a particular kind of technical training, they should pay to have them trained themselves - and offer enough incentives to those workers to stay after they're trained. Otherwise, no strings attached.

-There should be economic sanctions against any country that tries to lure jobs away from the US.

-The govt should offer subsidies to companies which create or expand unionized manufacturing in the US, with additional subsidies for manufactured goods which are exported.


Feel free to add you own ideas.

[RB TexLa]

1. How about accepting the fact that we are a global market.

[DJ13]

2. So you're willing to accept Chinese wages here in the US?

[Trillo]

7. An interesting chart titled

Real Average Weekly Earnings
on page 17
http://www.shadowstats.com/article/hyperinflation.pdf
It appears wages are already roughly and almost 1/3 of what they were in 1980.

[DJ13]

8. I believe it

Back in 1980 I was making $9 per hour in a factory.

I left in 1985.

I saw some of my old crew in the mid 90's and I asked them what they wer making per hour, expecting them to say somewhere near $20.

They had saw their wage increase from the $10.75 when I left in 85 up to ..... $11.80.

Ten years and only $1.05 more per hour for packing raw sheet glass in an un-air conditioned warehouse on rotating shifts.

Our economy went to shit for workers in the 80's.

[readmoreoften]

3. No thanks. But I'll except that I'm a member of a global workforce. /nt

[baldguy]

4. The problem with being in a race to the bottom:

Even if you win, you're still at the bottom.

How about realizing that the economic engine that CREATED the global market was the American middle-class.

[leftstreet]

5. Okay. I want my healthcare to come from Canada n/t

[havocmom]

9. and I want to pay rent rates more in keeping with other 3rd World nations

cuz the wages here have stagnated, but rents keep going up.... No global competition for landlords.

The 'global economy' argument is garbage, isn't it? I have to pay US prices but my wages, in real dollars, have fallen.

[HatTrick]

6. I totally agree

The so called "Free trade" is destroying our Economy.

Why do republicans get away with talk about free trade with a communist country like China?

If you really want to improve our trade laws so we export more products and jobs.

[Kat45]

10. Welcome to DU, HatTrick!