I don't know how the rich paying taxes correct the growing income gap. The rich paying taxes will allow the government to pay their bills but that doesn't do much for unemployed American. 

This is the problem with the USA. People want private companies to do what the government is supposed to do.

1.  It is NOT the responsibility of private companies to guarantee work for Americans. They will hire Americans as they need to, and pay them the MINIMUM that the market will allow.

2. If US workers aren't the most productive for a particular aspect of production, then either a machine or a workers located off shore will replace them.

3.  Corporations will manage cash as they see fit.  Profits will be highest in the location where taxation is the lowest. They don't have any obligation to guarantee revenues for any govt.

So if its isn't the responsibility for the US govt to anticipate what the labor force needs, will be, and to ensure that US workers are competitive, it surely is NOT the obligation of global corporations.

How do you see the US government going about achieving this?

The government must be kept out of people's pockets and let the free market run the world.

From day one this exporting of jobs has been wrong and the only way this can be corrected is by the people. The citizens have to get together, maybe a march (this is done for about every other thing)to show their support against this greed that is hurting everyone but the already rich companies.

The people have to grab the bull by the horns,pay a little bit more for their own products,kicking the foreign made to the curb. I do it as often as I could, I purchase Cdn or US items before any other.

Ok I drive a German car so I gotta add them in

These actions will prove worthwhile in no time at all.

Something that pisses me off is when these companies receive grants from their Govt then turn around and pull this stunt.

as stupid a statement as you can get....only one intent on naked predication says that

Taxes is one way...regulations another the theft of 3 trillion in the housing bubble is a consequence of lack of controls on investment banking and the fabrication of financial instruments from thin air.

Yet investment bankers are the drivers behind Washington.  Ask Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin et al.  The Secretary of the Treasury always have deep roots on Wall Street.

Regulation moreso. Deregulation over the past 3 decades has really hurt the working class. Now that AT&T has taken over Directv, you can choose between AT&T or Comcast. Although AT&T has storefronts, you can only talk to them if you wish to buy something. When you call for help, you get people from some other country who most of he time has a language barrier and no authority to resolve anything. Same with Comcast. Because of all this outsourcing, customer service is horrible.

Sounds like Rogers and Bell in Canada.

A couple years ago during a wicked snow storm,my telephone line came down, I called Bell and one of Cobra's people dem tried tellin Iman to go with a ladder outside in that deep tarass snow and start wuk on it, hehehehe

So here is my question an ah sure you guys askin the same thing

Is like, how the rass she know Iman got a ladder?

Because yuh sounded like yuh was high.

Cain probably told the lady to choose between his snake or ladder and the lady chose the ladder.

And this is a problem especially since so many rely on the internet.

yall bad!

Now digging some Sublime tunes...lovin is what I got ...I said remember that

LOL... you did it two laugh's for the day.

Bhai. We need to have some light, non political fun once in a while.

Yall think is joke nuh Iman get fex tarass and ask her to look outside I said ah doan know where you deh, but from where I standin we got bout four feet ah snow, plus even if was a clear day... it aint my job.

Dumbumbarass people dem vex iman up.

You must be a hippie to chat such nonsense. 

Americans are greedy by nature. Some are better able to satisfy their greedy needs, so cut this nonsense that greed can only be found in the corporate sector.  Look at how many politicians are going to jail.  Look at how much corruption exists within the non profit sector.  The Red Cross gobbling up money meant to help poor people in New Orleans and Haiti.

This is a market based free enterprise society, so no one can tell corporations whether to outsource or not. You think some march is going to change minds?

If the gov't cannot be bothered to assist people to be more globally competitive, in order to provide incentive for on shoring of off shore jobs, then why should corporations.

Folks also need to let go of the notion of entitlement.  Corporations select the people whose skills, mind set and productivity best suits their needs.  Workers select the companies who provide the best pay/benefits, work environment and ability to succeed.  The trick is to find where these points meet.

And cut out the notion of manufacturing going back to what it was in the 50s and 60s. NEVER will happen again.  The trade unions chased jobs out of the Mid West and North East to the South.  Then automation and off shore opportunities reduced manufacturing jobs even further.

Now that manufacturing jobs are being brought back to the USA they have been heavily automated and/or located in the South where wages are lowest, and there are less rigorous labor force regulations.

BOTTOM is in a free market system capital will go where to gets the highest return.  So don't scream about not getting jobs if those opportunities exist elsewhere.  May not be fair, but it is what it is. Note that US corporations began to off shore when Japanese companies under cut their market share in the USA, as they were more efficient.  Now other Asian companies are performing the same role.

The issue is the super rich derives more and more income from passive sources, which has a favorable tax regime.  They also have a lot of loopholes such as "carried interest", etc to not pay taxes.   The middle and upper middle class bear the brunt of this with all deductions being phased out, most well below 200k and the rest thereafter.  The evolution of how income is derived has changed substantially but the taxing regime and principles have not kept up.

In a rare twist, it is Bernie Sanders and Trump who talks the most of this inequity.

All of the Bush income tax cuts have been removed, and taxation of capital income the highest since the Clinton era, with additional Medicare taxation for those with higher incomes.

What needs to be looked are all those deductions for second homes, yachts, private planes, etc.  In addition to the various assorted corporate loop holes.

At the end of the day if folks think that they will achieve income equality through taxation, let them continue. No one is going to allow 90% of their income to be paid in taxes.  Please note that the various global tax havens were quite evident in the pre Reagan era.

There are at least 5 Caribbean islands willing to sell citizenship to wealthy Americans who renounce their US citizenship.  Note that these Americans will NOT have to live, or even visit those islands. Just invest money.  They can then buy green cards by investing in US assets, but shelter most of their income by booking it from corporations based overseas.

Those nutcases who think that the wealthy will pay more than 50% in taxes need to get a grip.

Even that does not solve the solve the employment problem in the US.

Iman say the people boycot dem foreign made for a while rass see how we hippies could start make changes.

There will need to be a cocktail of large-scale incentives, tax and otherwise to bring back mid-high tech manufacture in the USA.  We have engineering grads who cannot find work because of outsourcing.  I know one firm in NJ who had 12 design engineers now have two, and business is up.  The work have been outsourced to India and the two here check to make sure the Indians delivered what was asked.  I met a few engineers who had to accept service tech jobs competing with Vocational school grads because service and repair are all that's available.  They are worse off than the Vocational school grads because many have student loans.

Marco Rubio said a welder makes more than a Philosopher, true, but they also make more than an engineer.

Today few can do with less US workers, deliver the same product/service and make more money.  This is where income disparity stems from!

And when other countries retaliate by placing punitive tariffs on US imports, or US consumers scream when they see their cost of living soar as US companies cease to be competitive, and buy product made in other countries.

Not going to work.