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Manufacturing really never went away, but manufacturing jobs did.

Yeah US labor is like the most expensive input so we offset with capital expenditure

Tax cuts and deregulation could help on that front. We'll see what they do.

I saw some commentators today say the only thing they can think is trump wants to lower us wages so we can be completive with our manufacturing...

Dumping a bunch of federal workers into the labor force will help with that.

So would the grand plan of replacing income/payroll taxes with excise taxes (this would actually lower the cost of labor, more so than wages).

I believe it when I see it