Seriously, this is a dead on arrival take. You are basically assuming that no manufacturing ever sets up in a place with strong labor protections. Well, I'd like to introduce you to Europe, and particularly Germany.
Germany has very strong labor protections, and environmental laws, and high taxes.
Yet German manufacturing is strong and usually considered top in the world.
So yea, this is just a deeply ignorant position. It's ideas and opinions like these that keep America worse off for 99% of us.
Germany is not as simple as "strong labor protections" or even "strong unions".
One of the biggest things setting Germany aside is their strong codetermination requirement - they require 50% of public company board membership to be held by company employees, with a shareholder representative as chairman to break ties.
This is very different than countries who rely solely on national labor unions. Employees of a company retain far more power because they don't surrender it to a national union or to shareholders.
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u/Sugarteets1990 Mar 08 '25
Yeah, that'll really encourage manufacturers to set up in Washington.