On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:12:42 +1000, Peter Wiley wrote:


That'll work real well. They'll move their HO and stock exchange listing
to Singapore as well. Set up an importing subsidiary in the USA. Then
what?

I'm paying little/no attention to the US elections, but braindead ideas
like that have been tried many times in other places. So far the track
record is pretty poor. Even if they work to stop companies from moving
manufacturing offshore, how are you going to force consumers to buy stuff
at higher prices if the quality is the same? Tariffs & quotas?

How about changing a tax structure that encourages companies to outsource:

http://www.interesting-people.org/ar.../msg00121.html