Was a bit disappointed to hear that Trump will place a 20% tax on imports from Mexico...this ensures Americans will pay for the wall.
Absolutely Sli, I agree with you. These rabid Trump fans are not smart enough to grasp basic economics. Trump makes a huge deal of American jobs lost to foreign countries. But its not Mexico or China to blame. American businesses and their CEOs and our political leaders/representatives have exported domestic jobs overseas for cheaper labor costs and less safety and environmental regulations. The bottom line is we lost jobs primarily because of greed and a larger profit margins for these american corporations. Trump knows this but he also knows the majority of his fan base DOES NOT know better. Instead of paying labor costs of $12-25 dollars an hour in the USA, they could employ trained Mexicans for $2-6 an hour, all day long. Ford, RCA, GM, Toyota, BMW, Brake Parts International, Rexnord Bearings, and Nabisco to name a few biggies.
Mexico's current minimum wage is 58 cents an hour! No way american workers can compete with that.
GM doubled its manufacturing capacity in Mexico, invested an additional 3.6 billion dollars in Mexico plants in 2015 and 2016:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20141211/OEM01/141219966/gm-to-double-mexico-production-capacity-invest-$3.6-billion-in-plants
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