That is but a half-truth. Since we are no longer taxing income, companies make more profit, however because we are taxing sales the price (that's base price not final sales price which incorporates all taxes) to stay competitive will have to drop or other countries will still have the edge. If it costs $10 here to make one widget (that is including wages) it will cost 13-14 dollars after taxes (city/county (in some places)/state/federal). Now that same product might only cost $4 or maybe less to make in China making the final price 5-6 dollars. Why would the federal tax bring jobs back?

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Companies will have a large edge because of America's tax freedom. All imports will fall under the faritax. Exports on the other hand will not. Goods can leave tax free. Companies will place jobs here for that reason. Right now we have a tax disadvantage. It is against a companies best global interests to be based in America because it makes them less competitive. This will change that. Jobs will return and come here.

Even if the increase is smaller than expected why is that a problem? It is still an improvement.

The improvement gained will be minimal, especially looking at the jobs leaving. If only one thousand jobs came here I would be happy. Problem is it will be one thousand jobs coming and two thousand going. Exports right now are not taxed (just the wages required for shipping and making them are unlike imports where just the wages of shippers are taxed). Since the taxes will be the same on both imports and domestic products, people here will buy imports, and overseas because the dollar is weak and wages are high (even if it got stronger, it won't help much) the American product is still more expesive. I don't see this system working out the way you or it's designer see it.

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They are taxed. There are embedded taxes in them. There are also high compliance costs. America would be a tax haven and the place to be to compete. I think your estimate of the increase is low, but even so why not take the improvements over tha bad system we have now?

Like others have said Labor costs far out weight taxes.
We might bring in more financial companies that like to play with money but don't build or produce anything but your not going to bring in jobs for most Americans becuase Americans wont work for 1.50 a day and the companies cant treat the workers like cattle unless of course they are undocumented workers that they had brought up from Mexico.

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It will be a major improvement that will still end up keeping jobs here. Skilled jobs will end up coming here. Many jobs will come for the tax haven. I do not see the issue here. Either way we have an improvement from the current state.

You keep saying that jobs would come here but you not really explaining why they will come.

Like we have said there will still be a large difference in labor costs between say china and here so even if taxes are cheaper it will still be cheaper to manufacture the stuff in china.

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Not all jobs can do cheap labor. Take software for example.
I explained in a previous post exporting would be tax free, unlike now.
That is a reason why we are losing jobs, not only are we preventing those jobs from leaving but getting jobs back by fixing the problem. We are allowing them to compete more effectively.