2007-11-29 07:08:57 · 22 answers · asked by Lindsey G 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Our products would be safer and of better quality and we would have more jobs.
2007-11-29 07:19:54 · update #1
Because the United States is (mostly) a free country. It shouldn't be the government's job to tell people how to run their business unless they violate the law of the land.
2007-11-29 07:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
It's simple economics. Regulations increase prices. If the price increases too much, the company overseas will simply ship the goods here without the aid of an American company, more jobs will be lost. The Government is not the solution. You cannot micro-manage an entire economy. Think of the economy as a balloon. If you push on one side, it bulges somewhere else. if you put too much pressure on it, it pops,. If you reduce pressure on it as in a vacuum, it also pops. What you are really asking for here, is to eliminate foreign competition. Creating a vacuum. No inexpensive parts, No inexpensive labor. Prices will increase. Supplies will decrease because there will not be enough labor to make all the required goods. When supplies decrease prices will go up again because of the law of supply and demand. The question you asked is a very good example of the adage- "Be careful what you ask for, you might get it!"
2007-11-29 15:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by Homeschool produces winners 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
22% of the price of every good made in America is embedded business taxes that are passed on you the consumer (you and me), for this reason our goods are 22% less competitive in the global-market. So, it is cheaper on businesses to either import goods or manufacture overseas where they can escape the embedded costs of taxes in our country. What might help this problem is if congress pass a progressive consumption tax which would do away with the hardship on these businesses trying to export goods overseas by eliminating these taxes.
This is perhaps the biggest reason businesses move overseas. Right now many congressmen are looking at a progressive consumption tax called the "FairTax" and many of them are hopping on board. Unfortunately, President Bush is opposed to scrapping the old tax system and replacing it with a retail tax (would do away with the IRS as we know it, and would do away with filing taxes).
I suggest that if you want the "FairTax", that you contact your Reps, as they are the only ones who can implement new/different taxes under the constitution... and ask them to support the FairTax if this sounds good to you.
There is also the option of a flat tax which is not yet quite as popular, you may look into both and then write your Reps. and email, call or go to your state's capitol building.
2007-11-29 15:22:46 · answer #3 · answered by Jared 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Bush and other conservatives are against government regulations on business. The conservative philosophy is that regulation inhibits free enterprise.
The fact that American jobs are being lost to countries where workers are paid much less is not of concern to them because the lower wages and lack of safety and manufacturing standards increase corporate profits.
2007-11-29 15:18:12 · answer #4 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Did Bush just hit another homerun against Chinas trade agreements
Bush administration began imposing anti-subsidy duties on China.
China agrees to end a dozen subsidies that trouble trade relations
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/29/business/trade.php
2007-11-29 15:21:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because he supports shipping your job overseas, as do most of them (from both parties).
If you haven't noticed...they don't care about you or me. They have other priorities.
2007-11-29 15:16:39 · answer #6 · answered by Calvin 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because regulations on businesses are why the jobs are going overseas!
2007-11-29 15:13:59 · answer #7 · answered by MP US Army 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Regulations are not going to stop jobs from going overseas, lower the taxes they have to pay to the government will.
Economics 101.
2007-11-29 15:14:40 · answer #8 · answered by T-Bone 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Why regulate something that is acutally helping our economy. One job ends another one opens. We have gone from a nation of mass production, to a nation of technology and services. Why not take the least skilled jobs (sounds bad, but true) and send them to less developed nations.
2007-11-29 15:13:54 · answer #9 · answered by Tommy G 3 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Corporations don't care about where they come from. They only care about profits. Dubya himself gets profits overseas.
2007-11-29 15:14:14 · answer #10 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋