Typical. Let's go back for a second and take a look at a couple things. For instance, most European countries have legally mandated time off for both the new mother AND the new father. You don't think it helps when you have a C-section or a hard birth with postpartum depression to have the father at home to help out rather than stuck at work?
The US's 'free market' economy is totally screwed up when it comes to the amount of work we do and are expected to do as workers. If we're trying to compete with China, then's lets just go whole hog and institute mandatory 80 hour work weeks with no vacation at all. Or we can open our eyes to the fact that companies do not ever, ever, ever, have the well being of their employees at heart. Sleeping stations at work instituted for the 'good' of the employees, when in reality they were put in place so folks don't ever have an excuse to go home and stop working? 24x7 connectivity through cell phones with management that expects a response? Reclassification of workers to skirt overtime pay laws? I'm living through that right now.
Of course, if you think Trump is going to even attempt to fix this you're insane. I'm sure the companies will be 100% fair about the internet and everything else because Trump, Pai, and friends tell you so.
First of all you can't compete with China because your own greed and selfishness prevents that,
you want European/Canadian style guaranteed healthcare, labor rights, maternity/family leave, long paid vacations, retirement, good work environment, etc.,
yet you are unwilling to buy products made under those conditions because they are "ripping you off" so you buy made in Mexico, China, India, Bangladesh, etc. (usually made under conditions that your unions saved you from in this country's past), in this cheapest is best race to the bottom and then bitch and moan about the the lack of pay/benefits and your ever diminishing economic lifestyle.
And it's not just republicans any more, a lot of upper class liberals (
like those in silicon valley who are pushing for tax payer funded basic income also known as trickle down version 2.0 to save us from the robot bogeyman they like to push) who embrace all our current social justice fads are secretly hoping for this republican tax break,
as for the deplorables that used to work in the factories and consistently swing the democrat lever during elections and built much of the infrastructure as well as paid the price for today's lifestyle, they can go swing in the wind as far as the new liberal elite are concerned and now they are getting their just desserts called Trump,
and no Trump ain't saving anyone, he just knew how to channel the anger and frustration which didn't just help him win the general election, but what is so easily forgotten in this impatient me first, always looking for a hero/savior from themselves, generation, he also beat the Koch backed establishment republicans.
Tech CEOs know inequality is bad. So why does Silicon Valley want tax cuts?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ouldnt-lobby-for-them/?utm_term=.b71264d17cca
In the past year, as
Silicon Valley has become a lightning rod for public anger over increasing inequality of wealth and power, tech giants have been discreetly
supporting a slew of lobbyists to push corporate tax cuts, which may just inflame the very inequality that could turn public opinion against the industry.
Instead of simple tax cuts, tech leaders should deploy their army of lobbyists, policy wonks and economists to reimagine tax policy for a modern economy, where the
gains from economic growth are increasingly divorced from working-class jobs and wages.
The tech industry’s secretive and unimaginative approach to tax reform is as hypocritical as it is self-destructive. Silicon Valley’s business and
political leaders have spent the last year popularizing
creative new ways to redistribute wealth through higher taxes as a response to automation and inequality. The tax cut, libertarian trickle-down approach just is not consistent with the actual politics of technologists.