How to Save America

[The Anti-Wisemon]

Large corporate growth needs to be constrained on the one hand, and new, living wage jobs are needed on the other.

Why? Do you want to limit economic growth? And companies will always pay a living wage, becuase no company wants to lose headcount, especially in companies that require skilled labour.

Create tarriffs and import taxes so that once prices are jacked up to account for them foreign made products cost the same as USA made ones. Once this is done there will be no incentive to outsource since you don't make more profit for your products. It will also help the government raise money it sorely needs.

Outsourcing is a bad thing now? Seriously, if you want to get rid of it, cut down on business legislation here, increase the incentive to stay. Also, tariffs would decrease foriegn trade. All those foriegn companies that sell here, Honda, Toyota, Sony, Volkswagon ete. would be gone from an increase in cost. And many service jobs would be lost, not to mention it would only protect American companies, letting them make crappy products.

Large corporations can outsource and mechanize, thus reducing their need for labor, especially unskilled labor

Because of the business legislation in the US

Small businesses are having a hard time becoming big. The first can be solved simply by regulating how large a market share in how many markets a single company can hold, like we used to do with media until the Republicans fucked it up. Small businesses are having a hard time becoming big because barriers to entry of most markets are high, due to large corps already having technological advantages AND a market foothold, because they are being bought out, and because of oligopolies. An oligopoly is what you get when several large corporations that together dominate the market agree, either openly, secretly, or implicitly by the actions they take, to not take their own competition to a point that would open the market to new competitors. Hence the endless yet irrelevant service and price wars between auto makers, package delivery companies, computer makers, soft-drink companies, and television providers (ie: cable and sattelite companies). These should be treated as antitrust cases and forced to compete with each other: in a competitive game cooperation should be considered cheating. Barrier to entry problems will be solved partially by getting rid of oligopolies, and the rest can be aided through encouraging banks to help small businesses situate themselves in the market, which would be advantagous for the banks to do, seeing as these are their loan and account clients. Possibly the government could establish center(s) for keeping of business statistics that could be assured as reliable.

Small businesses have a hard time because of business legislation. Business legislation affects small businesses most. We get rid of that and large corporations have more competition.

Also, trusts aren't necassarily a bad thing. When Standard Oil had a monopoly from a trust, it lowered the prices for oil from $100 a barrel to $10 a barrel. By the time Congress did anything about Standard oil, though, it had lost it's market share, and was down to 25% of the oil market share. Monopolies are neither evil nor long lasting.

Even these won't fix things completely though. Trickle-down hasn't worked, but a rising tide still lifts all boats. The source of that tide must be from the bottom. We need to pass living wage laws that determine said wage by the mathematical formula used to calculate the cost of living in an area, by area (perhaps counties?) each year. The calculated wage should be the mandatory minimum wage. Also, American manufacturing companies must be encouraged in a way other than price equalization, possibly through a small (very small most likely) tax break for each American citizen employed full time to manufacture. Thus, the more American workers being employed, the more living wages being payed, the larger the tax break. This should of course, be done AFTER rewriting the tax code from the ground up to seal the gaping holes that have been opened in it, such as offshore tax shelters and "business expenses". My father once bought me a gift and then managed to write it off as a business expense, even though he was visiting me on a pleasure trip that had nothing to do with the bank he works at.

Any advanced economy is based more on service. Also, if you want to increase economic growth, decrease business legislation.

And geting tax breaks to the rich isn't so evil. Many small busines owners combine their business and their own income, and register witihn this bracket.

Once you've got Americans actually being employed as something other than service-sector "professionals" again, it would be a good idea to close the loophole that allows companies to get out of much of the regulations governing health insurance by setting up their own plans. This would help because then we could revive the old system of insurance companies with many different clients, thus allowing a collective pooling of risk and allowing more people and employers to afford health care coverage.

Why should companies have to provide health insurance, and a standardized one?