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    Posted October 13, 2012 by
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    How will American manufacturing return to the US?

    By WilliamBrown  |  Posted October 13, 2012  |  Spokane, Washington
     

    1 manufacturing facility with 500 employees from senior management to maintenance can contribute $10,000 per hour ($87.6 million per year) to a local economy. This puts small businesses in a position to expand, new businesses to start and grow, local services like firefighters, police, libraries, schools are funded with local tax-dollars without increasing local or state taxes or getting more federal help by taxing the middle-class and small businesses.

     

    With that said, since the 1990s US non-food consumer product manufacturers have received free trade agreements with 20 countries, trillions of dollars in tax breaks, loopholes and subsidies to relocate offshore. Over 5 million Americans have lost their jobs because of these FTA’s and financial incentives.

     

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