Manufacturing has died off because of extranational factors like chinese slave labor and government working for corps. Immigration didn't kill manufacturing, "global" corps and federal fuckery led to exporting it. A significant part of that can be laid at the lack of tariffs - our primary taxes used to be tariffs, income tax replaced them and removed the inherently protectionist element that tariffs had.
It is cheap to manufacture in China because of cheap labor, and the lack of even the most basic environmental law. To combat this wage and environmental arbitage the US should be using tariffs to negate these cost advantagesand protect domestic markets. This will never happen, of course, as China owns too many people in D.C.
Manufacturing has died off because of extranational factors like chinese slave labor and government working for corps. Immigration didn't kill manufacturing, "global" corps and federal fuckery led to exporting it. A significant part of that can be laid at the lack of tariffs - our primary taxes used to be tariffs, income tax replaced them and removed the inherently protectionist element that tariffs had.
Other than that, a lot of your post was dead on.
It is cheap to manufacture in China because of cheap labor, and the lack of even the most basic environmental law. To combat this wage and environmental arbitage the US should be using tariffs to negate these cost advantagesand protect domestic markets. This will never happen, of course, as China owns too many people in D.C.