If I may: employees don't control where the company is located. That's management.
This is a fun topic because management is ALSO responsible for why so many manufacturing jobs are NO LONGER IN THE USA. I think you know where this is going but I'll continue anyway.
Here's an example or two of what I mean and why you are ultimately wrong:
Some years ago I read about a company in Cali that manufactured fiberglass ladders. The state sent some regulators to their plant and the regulators told the owners that they had to install something like a couple of million dollars into new pollution controls. The owners called all their workers to a meeting on the spot--with the regulators present.
The owners then told their workers (they had about 100) what the regulators had told them. They then said, effective immediately, the plant is closed and everyone is laid off. The further apologized and said if the workers wanted their job to continue they would have to move to Goodyear Arizona where the company was moving effective immediately but they couldn't pay for workers to move.
The police were called to protect and remove the regulators because the workers wanted to kill them.
The company moved to Goodyear and still makes fiberglass ladders they ship and sell, at least in part, in California.
Progresso Soup--you know the brand I'm sure--had a factory outside Sacramento. The plant had been there since the 1920's making soup. California in the late 1990's came in and told Progresso they could no longer run their electric producing co-generation plant. This plant had for the time the factory existed, produced the electricity needed to run the factory by incinerating all of the vegetable and food scraps left over from production of the soup.
The state of California said the plant produced CO2 and was destroying the planet or some such nonsense. Progresso found that without that plant the factory was uneconomical to run and closed it laying off nearly 400 people. Production was moved to the mid-West.
Look at Remington. They are the oldest gun manufacturer in the US. Their factory was in NY until very recently. The state became so onerous with gun laws Remington closed a factory that had operated at a profit for over 200 years and moved to Georgia.
It is primarily Leftist rules, regulations, and laws that cause manufacturers to leave the country or to leave blue, Leftist, Democrat states. Democrats taxed and regulated the auto industry out of Michigan.
Not all regulation is bad, but with the Left all regulation is seen as good and more regulation seen as better.
All the stuff you want to "fix" about the economy? Prices, Made-in-America, etc. All of that is messed up right now in large part due to the same MANAGERS you are currently lauding for running away from Cali and to Texas.
It isn't managers that are fucking things up nearly as much as government regulators.
See that puddle in the middle of that field?
The EPA decided in its infantile 'wisdom' that that puddle was a "wetland" and that the farmer who owns that land could no longer farm that land--not just the puddle but all the land around it--because of that. The EPA was eventually smacked down and told to STFU in a 9-0--note that unanimous--decision by the Supreme Court that the puddle wasn't a "wetland" and the farmer could farm his land.
The U.S. Supreme Court put another dent in the regulatory reach of the EPA, ruling in favor of an Idaho couple in their bid to build a home on property that the EPA had deemed a protected wetland.
www.agweek.com
In blue, Leftist, run states such insanity is the rule of the day. They do this sort of shit all the time. Companies and people leave because of it. They don't want their lives and businesses micromanaged by idiots and morons in government.
ONE way of saving YOU the customer money is to reduce operating expenses. Within the US the best you can hope for is to move somewhere with lower taxes who are willing to gut their own economies to lure you in. But the REAL MONEY MAKING happens when you offshore American jobs. Then you can pay pennies on the dollar for goods and services and "pass the savings along to the customer!"
Or, somewhere with sane regulations that cost a fraction of the ones in some insane blue, Leftist, state.
Corporate profits are at these ridiculous HIGHS now at EXACTLY the same time as YOUR GROCERY BILL IS HIGH. Isn't that interesting and fun?
What are the highest profit margin companies in the US right now. Don't go and look it up. Tell me what you believe are the highest profit margin companies in the US either by name or by sector of the economy.
