[curiousgeorgio]

I'd venture to say that our wage and labor problems have less to do with the economy itself and more to do with a shift in global demand and specialization. All of those manufacturing jobs are going to China (whether we like it or not, China's labor costs are probably always going to be more cost effective for business), and the US labor market is demanding more skilled labor. We have an enormous oversupply of unskilled labor that isn't meeting the shift in labor demand.

Instead of using politics and complex tax systems to try and gain back those manufacturing jobs, I wish our government would focus more on helping our workforce adapt to the things where our country can have a competitive advantage in the world: education, technology, engineering, etc.