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Place tarriffs on companies that have shipped jobs out of the USA, but still want to sell products here.

Why Is This Idea Important?: The Tarriff funds can be used to re-educate American workers, allow low-cost loans to NEW manufacturing businesses in the US (green jobs especially) - and help pay for the cost of all the healthcare and aid the unemployed need now that we're in this Depression. Make THEM PAY for the destruction of our economy. Outsourcing jobs to other countries has caused a great deal of the problems we have. And if they complain about the tarriffs, refuse to let them sell here.

The Hershey Company no longer makes chocolate in the US. Automakers have shifted jobs to Mexico. But they STILL expect the US consumer to purchase their goods. At the SAME prices. Place at LEAST a 30% tarriff on EACH product they ship back to the US for sale. They should be treated like any foreign company that wants to sell their goods here.

Submitted by jolly.hobbit 2 years ago

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  1. becky said:

    Definitely. It should NOT be cheaper to move jobs overseas.

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  2. Don Wood said:

    You want to place a tax on companies who want to make a profit, but find they can no longer do so in America??? How smart is that. Please get acquainted with the law of: "The BAD drives away the GOOD!" Think nickel copper coins instead of silver ones Think of a brick and mortar wall trying to keep people inside a country instead of allowing them to come and go freely. The solution is to get rid of the income tax and go back to the Constitutonal idea of apportionment, but not against the states, but against all the people rich and poor alike. Make everyone pay the same percentage of the total costs. We all benefit equally, we should all pay equally.

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