In order to keep jobs here, there should be a large penatlty or at least a large tarrif to be imposed at the time of merchandise essembled in other countries arriving United States. That way we keep jobs here and keep large corporations and manufacturers from benefiting cheap labor and contributing to the economy of other countries instead of their own.
Location: Fresno, California
Bringing jobs back to country an d health care can be combined on a state level where local aide already exists such as Mass. Subsidy of these benefits may also encourage other states if it brings in new employers.
How about a federal law requiring any product or parts coming into the US provide proof of our manufacturing safety standards by those supply companies with 3rd party random inspections (by the US) and documentation? We do the same thing for certain woods already. Yes, maybe a paperwork nightmare but WTH? Can’t be worse than the status quo and we need to level the playing field!
We tried this durring the great depression and it didn’t work. Instead, it made everything considerably worse. Here’s a wikipedia article on the tariff, called the Smoot-Hawley tariff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act
What will happen is, other countries will stop importing goods here, and the businesses that provide jobs, that depend on those cheap goods will go bankrupt. The countries that sell us these cheap goods, whom also depend on our manufacture of tools will then go bankrupt and on the whole there will be fewer jobs everywhere.
The proper response is to have our politicians work with other countries to reduce the barriers to trade (taxes, ect) and make our products demanded world wide as a result. There will be more trade, which will create more jobs.