Outsourcing and the Trade Deficit

No tax dollars should be outsourced. Period. Taxpayer dollars should not employ foreign workers while there are unemployed Americans.
No jobs that might require a foreign national access to an individual’s social security number, bank account number or credit card number (and anything similar) should be outsourced.
Any nation that has a trade surplus must pay 10% of that trade surplus back to the United States. For example, if India has a trade Surplus of $150 billion, it will have to pay $15 billion back to the United States. This money should be reinvested in companies that keep jobs in the United States in the form of tax breaks. This is not a tariff. Similarly, a company that wants to sell their products in a major supermarket or chain store might have to pay a fee for shelf space. Consider this the cost of doing business with the largest chain store in the world… The United States.
THE ALTERNATIVE is to force our unfair trade partners to buy the items they need from U.S. manufacturers. For example: The Chinese people seem to be buying more and more cars. Why can’t U.S. car manufacturers create a car that conforms to the Chinese need? Maybe they can make a bare-bones vehicle that can be sold in China for a fraction of the price it would have to be sold for here.

More Thoughts on Free Trade

If you give incentives to companies that produce in the US, and take away the incentives from US companies that
produce products elsewhere for consumption in the US, the US producing companies will be able to lower prices, while the
others will either have to raise prices or keep them as they are.
The people of the US will pay more for US made merchandise if given a choice. One reason people buy imports is because there are no US made product to compete with them on the store's shelves. Don't sell the American public short on this one. By the way, I DO shop labels, when I can.

What If

There are plenty of items made both abroad and in the USA. Let's take a look at one item in particular:

A heavy-weight denim work shirt made in the USA costs the consumer $24.95. A similar shirt made overseas costs the consumer
$19.95. If given the choice, a consumer might buy the USA made shirt and pay the extra $5.00. If there were incentives given
to the company that manufactures the shirt made in the USA, it might be possible to for that company to pass the savings onto
the customer. That shirt might now be sold for $22.50 instead of $24.95. As an additional incentive to the consumer, a
reduction in the sales tax might be given on the item made in the USA; or a 2% to 3% tax might be added to the import item. This could be used as part of the incentive given to the company that manufactures in the USA.