Yep, they will register their trucks at the nearest low tax state or now country. Remember Ross Perot and the "Giant Sucking Sound" taking our jobs out of the country. Well, it has arrived. Economy is stagnant because we don't make anything anymore. At least if we had factories here, when inventories get depleted, they would have been hiring back to go back into production and we would have been out of this recession by now regardless of who was in office. Now, if inventories of items get depleted, we just import more from China. Only so many jobs in infrastructure, government, utilities, teaching, medical, etc. We have got to either be building homes, or making things to keep people working. Also, manufacturing jobs provide health care insurance and pay taxes. Hmmm, sounds like we need to be doing the opposite, bring factories back home.
The only reason we make foreign cars in this country is we have a law that was put in place in the late 70's or early 80's that says all vehicle companies which sell in America has to have at least 50% of the vehicle made here. I know of a textile plant which recently closed and went overseas. A friend of mine was a supervisor over 30 people in 1980 and sometimes ran 6-7 days a week. During the 80's they installed new looms which were more automated and by 1990 he only had 8 employees and the factory could put out 8 times as much cloth and only ran 5 days a week. Then after the free trade agreements of the 1990's, the factory decided to move overseas for cheaper labor. Sewing and shoe making were the first to go, then other industries.
I therefore think we need some tarriffs or some protection to get some manufacturing jobs back home. I think absolutely EVERYTHING the military needs should be made here period. This would bring back some. Then require all Federal and State governments to buy ONLY American made products. I saw were California used a Chinese company to make prefab bridges for use in California instead of an American company and they have a high unemployment rate. They said it was cheaper. Might have been, but they didn't consider the trade off of unemployment benefits costs, food stamps, welfare, etc, with no income tax collected and no corporate tax from whoever made or built the bridges.
