It's already proven that universal healthcare will lower costs compared to Medicate, the AHCA and the ACA due to it being a simpler and more effective system. I don't condone just seizing everything if you're concerned, only in the when large companies have clearly violated an agreement with the state or broke tax evasion laws when moving out. I'm certainly against seizing assets from citizens except maybe under very specific circumstances (which I can't even think of now). And of course, implementing correct import taxes can help. Competition can be good, so these don't need to be too heavy, but they need to be heavy enough to level the playing field somewhat.

Part of the car manufacturers problem is their monopoly and cartel-forming tendencies. GM is too big and inneficiënt for it's own good and relocating is not going to help. I'm for an import tax, but you can't solve corporate incompetance through an import tax, no matter how high.

Cars wont be cheaper, they will not pass on any savings to the consumer. I dont care how much you pay the union employees at a factory, it does not cost 60K+ to build a Cadillac or a Tahoe, they are the same chassis with different cosmetics. They want bigger bonuses and higher corporate wages.

I am living in Switzerland but from outside, i cant see any difference between trump and hillary. Sanders seems trustable but the two candidates are both corrupt.

Sure it will.  We just have to degenerate our standard of living to match the lowest in the world.  That will certainly solve things.  Of course, that will result in other countries lowering their standards in order to attract businesses, too, so we'd have to downgrade again.  Maybe end up in situations where we are not only getting rid of corporate taxes but are actually paying corporations to stay.

Yeah, in the real world, that's not really an option.  Trump is well aware that doing so isn't nearly enough which is why he has talked about tariffs so often.

It's a capitalist market.  That means countries should leverage their buying power and operate just like multi-national corporations, not just sit and beg for jobs or wait to get used and thrown away.  If a shopping mall can charge companies for doing business in their market-place then a country can do the same.  

You incentivise staying but you also decentivise moving.  That's the only thing that's going to actually work.

Entry level job pays $32 an hour here at Ford. Most would be closer to $45-50 an hour with 5+ years exp.

..... Do you not read the articles that you source?

First of all, the new study was done by a professor from Berkeley of all schools..... A very liberal school that's been in the news not that long ago that suggests that the staff there might not be so objective on anything.

Further along in that article.

"A city-commissioned report by University of Washington researchers last year reached a more mixed conclusion.

That study said the law indeed helped to raise the hourly pay for low-wage workers.

But it also concluded that while the employment rate for such workers was better than the historical average due to the booming overall economy, the minimum-wage law itself appeared to have slightly lowered their employment rate and hours worked, relative to regional trends."

"Heidi Mann, who with her husband owns a Subway franchise near the Shoreline border, said she had seven employees, including her husband, two years ago. But she’s gradually had to let four of them go and is down to one full-timer, one part-timer and her husband, who’s working 60 hours a week and likely to take on more hours soon, she said.

Because she’s a franchisee, her Subway is considered a big business and must pay $15 an hour. “That’s why our prices are higher than the Subway in Shoreline or the mom-and-pop shop down the street,” Mann said.

She raised the prices of sandwiches an average of 86  cents to help offset the minimum-wage boost, and said she’s lost customers because of the increases."

It sounds like this isn't going so well. I'd like to see multiple studies done on this when the full 15 is affecting every business there for a bit. I also want to see how it affects overall hours per employee, weekly/monthly/yearly earnings etc in comparison to before the law took effect.

Uh, this just isn't true at all.

Good, now those pesky Mexican immigrants will migrate to China instead of the US. Trump is so smart.