banderl wrote:Tell that to the Carrier people.
Trump could have brought the jobs back with incentives/tariffs through the tax-bill. What he did instead was actually make it easier for jobs to leave the country.
“It’s sort of an America-last tax policy,” said Kimberly Clausing, an economist at Reed College in Portland, Ore., who studies tax policy. “We are basically saying that if you earn in the U.S., you pay X, and if you earn abroad, you pay X divided by two.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/business/economy/gop-says-tax-bill-will-add-jobs-in-us-it-may-yield-more-hiring-abroad.html