Meeting with American corporate CEOs at the White House on
the first “working day” of his presidency, Donald Trump warned, “A company that
wants to fire all of its people in the United States and build some factory
somewhere else, then thinks that product is going to just flow across the
border into the United States . . . that’s just not going to happen.”[1]
The new president was up against “tectonic forces” in trying to bring back
“blue collar” manufacturing jobs to his base using tax policy. Yet the business
calculus goes immediately on the basis of financial advantage, and the contours
of the “game board” include the various tax and trade policies of countries.
The full essay is at "Bringing Back the Jobs."
[1]
Nelson D. Schwartz and Alan Rappeport, “Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests
Trump’s Sway,” The New York Times,
January 24, 2017.
