[pmoriarty]

"Port of Portland is now shuttered because they intentionally slowed down work to the point of forcing companies to go elsewhere."

Unions should be everywhere, so these companies could not escape them by relocating.

Capital trying to feel the country should also be taxed heavily for the same reason.

[refurb]

Sounds like a planned economy. We know how well that works.

[maxerickson]

China has been doing okay using that sort of high level planning, where the government supervises a lot of the economy and limits the movement of capital.

[j_walter]

You really think that? Talk to any of the chinese citizens that have fled the country to live elsewhere. Certain parts of how that government runs may look good from afar, but not if you are actually living under their rule.

[maxerickson]

I don't think the people have it good, but the economy has grown massively for ~40 years running.

[refurb]

That "sort of planning". But are they requiring unions, taxing all companies and preventing capital from fleeing?

No.

[maxerickson]

China has the strictest capital controls there have ever been.

The other stuff, sure no, but I wondered if you were making a broader point about a controlled economy, which would be a point that China increasingly contradicts.

[refurb]

Now China has capital controls but that's a more recent development.

[j_walter]

They went to the port of Seattle and LA...same union but different local leadership. They weren't much better, but better enough to relocate and pay to truck goods up and down the I5 corridor.