Looking at this argument:
"This is the exact same argument as the minimum wage: pay people a wage
they didn't earn because they can't compete."
Makes me think you didn't read what I wrote.
Question: WHY can't companies compete here in the US?
Answer: Because it costs too much to pay our workers their wages, taxes, and
FICA like Dana said.
Question: WHY does it cost so much?
Answer: Because there's a minimum wage.
Question: WHY is it more cost-effective to move operations offshore?
Answer: Because the cost of labor overseas COMBINED with a lack of a federal
tariff, makes importing goods from foreign countries cheaper than producing
them in the US.
Question: WHAT can we do to prevent job loss?
Answer: EITHER
1) Raise tariffs so it costs as much to sell an imported
good produced overseas as it does to produce it here
OR
2) Reduce the cost of production by eliminating the minimum
wage and other hurdles.
What you apparently haven't understood yet is that the US Government has
imposed a production overhead cost in the form of minimum wages upon
domestic businesses AND removed any protection those companies have in the
form of tariffs. The effect is that now domestic companies move their jobs
overseas. I'm asking that they either level the playing field by imposing
tariffs OR remove the burden of production in the US. Which one do you
want?
Matthew Small
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