Trump’s 35 percent tariff wouldn’t keep jobs in the U.S. Here’s why.

OK SGT Wallace, I get it, you don't think President-elect Trump's policies will work.

Let me ask a question: do you want them to work? President Obama's social agenda could be off-putting to some, but surely, we can all agree that better opportunity for workers is objectively good, right?

So allow me to offer a suggestion: start from a different set of presuppositions and work from there. Work from the presupposition that something must be done, and that it will likely take a significant, continuous (as in unceasing) effort to create and sustain that sort of society.

I did not vote for Mr. Trump. I will likely vote against him in 2020.

But at this point, as an American, I hope he succeeds.

His plan is to reduce corporate and individual taxes. Corporate from 35%+ to about 15%. That will be solid motivation to stay. The repatriation of earnings from overseas may be taxed at only 8-10%, today, I believe it is at 35%-40%. This will bring money flowing back in which will help companies invest here.

The tariff, which remains to be devised, may be a tool he uses if a needed. The right approach is to motivate companies to stay through better tax approaches. If a company leaves, we lose all of the corporate taxes, states and local taxes they pay and we lose the jobs and all of the taxes (federal, state, SS etc.) the employees pay and all of the spending of those lost salaries in the towns/cities those people live in. It is a massive economic issue we need to address. We have none zippo to address it the last 8 years.

"When companies move production offshore it lowers their cost structure. Those cost savings will be passed along to consumers back in the United States eventually." Companies have been leaving by the droves for the last 8 years. That is just factual information and can be validated by a simple internet search (I have my opinions of why, but it is not relevant here.). So let me ask, has any of you paid less for a consumable item than what you did 10 years ago? This guys whole premise is flawed. I have no clue where professor Kane came up with his theory, but the first law of economics is supply and demand. It says that if the demand for a product stays the same and the demand stays the same the price stays the same. They pay very smart people shit tons of money to determine what the market can stand to pay for a product. They do cost analyst to see how much sales will drop or raise if they move the price up or down. Companies don't care what the cost is or passing the savings on to you. Your an idiot if you think they do. It is about maximizing profit. That is capitalism. Nobody is going to lower the cost on a product because they moved off shore. They just lowered their cost by x amount per unit meaning they just gained a profit. How would you even explain that you left money on the table at a shareholders meeting? So while this morons fancy speak sounds really good. He can't even grasp the simple concept of "What the market will bear." Remember this concept when Obama Care is repealed and you are scratching your head because you are still paying the same amount for insurance when you were told it was going to go down by the politicians. It's not going down, but health insurance companies stock is going to go through the roof. The day it is repealed everything I got is going to be invested in Blue Cross.