Political Matrix Series: Question 2

[ElectionsGuy]

Agree. If you send jobs overseas, your assets in the United States should be taken over and your workers given control of them.

What if the jobs were already overseas? What if a US company acquires a Chinese company that already manufacturers a product in China?

I don't think it would need apply, in that case. But if you're going to layoff people here and move production elsewhere, you should pay the price for it.

But if you want to move production from a foreign country to the United States, it's fine because it benefits us? Do you believe that everything we consume should be produced within our borders?

Funny, this would literally be isolationist, and libertarian "isolationists" (as called by the media) aren't in favor of this. 

[TNF]

Agree. If you send jobs overseas, your assets in the United States should be taken over and your workers given control of them.

What if the jobs were already overseas? What if a US company acquires a Chinese company that already manufacturers a product in China?

I don't think it would need apply, in that case. But if you're going to layoff people here and move production elsewhere, you should pay the price for it.

But if you want to move production from a foreign country to the United States, it's fine because it benefits us? Do you believe that everything we consume should be produced within our borders?

The answer for your first question is 'obviously.' But foreign investment should be strictly controlled and confined to certain economic sectors, so as not to disrupt the development of the American economy. I don't think that necessarily everything we consume should be produced here, but the vast majority of it should. Foreign companies should have to produce a certain percentage of the products they sell on our markets here in the United States.

[Njall]

Usually Agree

[Redalgo]

Usually Disagree / Not a Critical Issue

[Rockefeller GOP]

Disagree.

[Deus Naturae]

Agree. If you send jobs overseas, your assets in the United States should be taken over and your workers given control of them.

What if the jobs were already overseas? What if a US company acquires a Chinese company that already manufacturers a product in China?

I don't think it would need apply, in that case. But if you're going to layoff people here and move production elsewhere, you should pay the price for it.

But if you want to move production from a foreign country to the United States, it's fine because it benefits us? Do you believe that everything we consume should be produced within our borders?

The answer for your first question is 'obviously.' But foreign investment should be strictly controlled and confined to certain economic sectors, so as not to disrupt the development of the American economy. I don't think that necessarily everything we consume should be produced here, but the vast majority of it should. Foreign companies should have to produce a certain percentage of the products they sell on our markets here in the United States.

Should the vast majority of products New Yorkers consume be produced in New York? Should the vast majority of products NYC residents consume be produced in NYC? Should the vast majority of products Upper East Side residents consume be produced in the Upper East Side? There's no reason why it's inherently better to produce goods in the same physical area in which they will be consumed (especially when that physical area is just the land mass that happens to be within arbitrary lines that were drawn decades if not centuries ago).

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Disagree. Critical issue.