Trump's Proposals Won't Help the White Working Class or the Urban Poor

Re:Trump's Proposals Won't Help the White Working Class or t... by chinese_donald on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:37PM (#12960217)

"The larger problem for Trump and his supporters is that there is very little reason to think that any set of policies could meaningfully reverse the long-term decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. That decline has been driven by a combination of globalization and automation"

Those jobs are gone forever. We are now a global economy and trying to bring those jobs back will be a race to the bottom.

Trump has proposed a lower tax burden on small business owners. This will make it easier to start a company and give many businesses a way to hire more employees.

We should be concentrating on ways to bring more businesses into the US and less restrictions/lower taxes is a great start.

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Re:Trump's Proposals Won't Help the White Working Class or t... by MR4D on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:30PM (#12960766)

I'm not sure that's the right way to look it. After all, someone has to construct the factories for building future devices. And those buildings need concrete, steel, electricity, infrastructure, etc.

THOSE jobs are decent jobs. Even if the factories are robotic, we'd still be able to recover those jobs.

So the future will be different, but I'd still rather be making things in our country for the reason above.

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