Force U.S. manufacturers to bring back jobs for the U.S. workers whose jobs they have outsourced in order to reduce their costs of labor. How do we do this? Tell those nations that we are trading with under international trade agreements that we do not believe that they are trading fairly with us and that unless they begin to do so we will reject our compliance with the trading agreements and declare them null and void. When we have nullified those trade agreements, the U.S. should impose import duties on U.S. Mfgrs. equal in amount to the difference between the foreign wages paid to the foreign workers and the minimum U.S. hourly wage for the same number of hours for which the Mfgrs. have paid their foreign workers. In other words we should make reimported foreign manufactured goods as costly to the U.S. Mfgrs. via import duties as it would have been had they not outsourced those jobs in the first place. If the U.S. Mgrs. don't like it then they can sell those same foreign made goods in the nations in which the goods were manufactured. They will lose the U.S. market for their foreign made goods unless they are willing to pay the U.S. import duties. That's the kind of tax rebate that would really help the U.S. economy to get out of this recession.
Creating and regaining lost, permanent U.S. jobs is the best way to get our nation out of recession. A temporary tax rebate is not a permanent fix. It is not even a short term fix. Only when U.S. workers have jobs can they continue to make mortgage payments; buy gasoline at its current price; pay for medical insurance; buy food, clothing and make minimum credit card payments. What will happen when the $800.00 per person tax rebate is spent? Will it have prvided a jobless worker's family with the continued wherewithal to pay for his or her familiy's needs. No, of course not!
What it will do is to give a tax rebate to all U.S. persons who have paid taxes including a great number of wealthy people who don't spend any more for anything because the already have what they need. In our economics classes we learned about the law of diminishing marginal utility which is, in other words: "The more you have of something you needed the LESS you want more of it." So, why rebate to the wealthiest who are less likely to spend it? That's another reason not to go for a "temporary, UNtimely fix" that won't, in the long run, solve th recession problem.
The "Temporary" fix will only benefit the wealthiest people. It will not solve the problem which is the continued loss of U.S. jobs to those abroad. How many jobs has the U.S. created in China, India,Latin America and the rest of the world outside the U.S.? Ask the Bush administration and the Republican neo-conservatives that question. A correct answer will show how many jobs have left the U.S. permanently and the rate at which more jobs will leave our country in the long run future.
Please. Democratic members of Congress. Insist on combating the effects of continuing job losses abroad. Reject N.A.F.T.A. and all similar treaties. Insist on fixing the unemployment problem, also, by undertaking construction of new public infrastructure in the U.S. hiring only legal U.S. residents..
