This paragraph is exactly why people are stuck with rhetoric instead of facts.
To suggest, that a corporation, would rather come back to the USA and pay greater than 5 dollars a day to an american worker, or provide healthcare, or provide a pension or pension matching is simply laughable.
To suggest, that profits would increase by increasing the cost of doing business is the funniest thing ever said on this subject.
The issue and subject is bringing jobs back to the USA, and yet YOU offer us "morale and esteem" for the owners of the company.
The whole process of leaving the USA began with Ronald Reagan and his administrations attempts to break labor unions in this country. To some extent, they were successful. Take the teamsters for example.
In 1980 there was over 20 million working teamsters in this country, but today, because all the good assembly and manufacturing jobs are gone, there are less than 2 million working teamsters today.
Did it kill the Union? NO. But it did hurt.
Reagan opened the door to companies going to mexico to take advantage of almost zero tax rates and 3500.00 dollars a year for the average full time worker. Because of that, company profits skyrocketed, yet, that money was never re-invested in America. What did happen, was other companies saw what was happening and they too picked up and moved their operations to mexico.
Now multiply that tens of thousands of times and you will see that the motivation was the escape of the Ameican worker.
You said "the trickle down effect works"... yet, you must have missed every presidency that has tried it begining with Herbert Hoover and the great depression.
Reagan tried it, and saw the national deficit skyrocket to 3.7 trillion dollars and 10.7% unemployment by the end of hs second year. At that point, he began to raise taxes on middle class america to try and recover from the loses he was racking up and finally, he had to borrow from social security leaving it in a fiscal disaster for years to come.
He started his term at 6.0% and after 8 years, he left office with unemployment at 6.1%
Trickle down did nothing for the country in 8 years for Reagan and just like Hoover, a savings and loan collapse, a stock market collapse and a recession started.
Bush 1 tried to maintain the Reagan/Hoover strategy, but soon quickly found out that he was killing the nation and he was forced to raise taxes to cover the disaster of his presidency.
GW BUSH, then comes in and immediately reverts back to "trickle down" and he took, destroys a nation and leaves it in RUINS for years to come.
But, here you are BABA, trying to tell us how "trickle down" works.
To that end, I ask you...
Are you fricken kidding me?
TOS.
