Dragonlady
Designing Woman
The reason cheapskate companies went overseas is because they didn't believe in america and it's laborers. Saying higher wages cause inflation is simply wanting wage suppression on the greatest most productive workers in the world. The current American workforce has the best work ethic in this nations history.
The reason companies went overseas is because third world country labour is paid less than American labor and there were few labor laws or environmental regulations.
Employers used the threat of off-shoring to bully unions into making wage and benefits concessions.
Reagan promised workers that they'd all get a big raise when the unions were gone. The unions are pretty much gone, but the workers are still waiting for that big raise. They're also waiting for the raise that Trump promised when he cut corporate income tax rates.
Now Trump says the workers have to "take their medicine" in the form of paying tariffs for "long term gain".
When do the wealthy oligarchs who have benefitted from every Republican economic crash which impoverished working Americans have to "take their medicine"?