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In his announcement speech this week, Ben Carson addressed that head on with the suggestion of a tax holiday and let everybody bring their money home. It isn't doing any of us any good whatsoever parked overseas and wouldn't cost anybody a single dime by letting everybody bring their money home and put it to work here tax free.
That would be capitalism at its finest. And would make for a much more secure future for many. But how many on the left or right would agree with that?
I would absolutely agree with that as long as it came with the stipulation that business MUST reinvest in jobs for Americans. They are tens of millions of square footage of idle manufacturing plants in this country. Fire them back up and get this country working again. And this nonsense that companies CAN'T pay American workers a "decent" wage is bogus propaganda. These companies that have made out like bandits for the last 25-30 years can lower their profits by 3% and pay decent, living wages to their employees. The inherent problem? Unions. They would be like sharks in the water - and I understand that that is a principle reason for not bringing these companies back to America. Do something about these unions - and they WILL return.
I'm pretty sure they won't do it though with that kind of stipulation. In most cases, you cannot have both capitalism and government dictates. You have one or the other.
BUT. . . if Congress would get off their butts and start rolling back the most onerous and unnecessary regulations, create a fair and unoppressive tax system, and turn business loose to do what Americans do best, you can be assured they would put that money to work.
Honestly, it wouldn't be a "dictate" - but rather an "agreement". You know like the one we made with business when NAFTA came into being. And you are correct about regulations. Since taking over, Obama has increased (by nearly 200,000) the amount of regulations on business in this country. Business is most definitely being strangled out of existence in America.
I put '200,000 new regulations Obama' into a search engine and I find exactly dick. Is this another one of those 'phantom studies', like the one that said that new graduates have an 83% unemployment rate?
You know, one people keep 'quoting' but can never actually find?
Here...Government report finds regulations have spiked under Obama TheHill
My 200,000 was a typo. 20,000 Gee, someone as (obviously) intelligent as you should have had no trouble whatsoever finding it....
When your numbers are off by an order of magnitude? Someone as intelligent as me would call bullshit and demand sources. Which I did.
And even after correcting for your 'typo', your numbers are way, way off:
From 2009 through last year, there were more than 13,000 final rules published in the Federal Register, while fewer than 12,400 were finalized from 2005-2008, the report found. That’s an increase of nearly five percent.
Government report finds regulations have spiked under Obama TheHill
That's 13,000. Not 20,000. You're off by about a third.
And its a meager increase of 5% over Bush's pace. With some of the regulations credited to Obama quite possibly late term Bush era changes.