Republicans against big government

[Dill]

(11-01-2016, 05:30 PM)GMDino Wrote: Why do Republicans want government interference in business to force them to stay here or not leave?

One of Trump's promises (Clinton too to an extent) is to "bring the jobs back".  But how?  Force them by changing laws?

Isn't that some those darn "regulations" that the right hates so much?  Isn't that giving government more power over businesses?

Serious question here.  How do you justify wanting government to "get out of the way" so businesses can run along with a desire to have government "do something" to get jobs back in the US?

Dino, Republicans aren't one thing.  The big employers and their apologists still don't want regulation any more than they want unions.

Out of work Republicans are understandably upset because their jobs have fled to other lands. That is why they are susceptible
to Trumpist populism and angry at the free-market loving "establishment."  That is why the Republican party is seriously,
dysfunctionally, irrationlly divided, with Trump schizophrenically promising tax cuts to the rich and jobs back for the out of work.

Cheaper corporate taxes in places like Ireland may encourage some companies to relocate headquarters.

But the main driver for offshoring and outsourcing jobs is not cheaper corporate taxes in other lands, but cheaper labor. Some argue that
NAFTA facilitates the movement of jobs to lands with cheaper, non-union labor.  Cutting taxes on the rich isn't going to fix that.