Minus the incidentals, that is. Additional revenue means additional taxes, for one example.
I'm afraid we would be hard pressed to find an item that is 100% USA, identical to one produced somewhere else for the same price. It would be an adventure just to track one down.
Most of us are happy to oblige if we stumble over such a thing, but most of us want the best price, or the brand with the best reputation.... where it is made is not generally the first priority.
That was drummed out of us a long time ago.
I like Diane Sawyer, but her horse has seen better days, sadly. :0000000000luvmyhors

I didn't make the 200,000 jobs claim and it frankly sounds inflated to me. I just was answering Barry's question. Like most proposals of this kind, it is very simplistic and the devil is in the details. I said the sales would produce additional REVENUE, the profit realized is indeterminite and would involve a great many variables including taxes, overhead, labor, shipping etc.

How's that work?

Bill :)

There are dozens of stores in TV area that feature "American Made" products, they are called antique stores... It is amazing to young folks when they realize that all that stuff was once made here in the USA... just sayin'

I'll be ordering, the shipping is reasonable and I can't believe they have Brooks Barbeque stuff. Thanks for the link.

You're absolutely right. I meant my previous comment to be an added thought to your post. Didn't mean it as a criticism to you. I should have worded it differently, sorry.

I knew that it USED to be under 60hp...Most of the smaller US tractors no matter who makes them are made by Yanmar in Japan. It may very well be that JD has now switched to all tractors under 100hp. That's sad. I guess then instead of tractors you'll have to swap the carts for JD combines!

No problem, didn't take it as a criticism, I just wanted to clarify.

Don't get advice about how the economy works from Diane Sawyer. My Goodness!

Amazon.com lists 157,324 items made in America.

That would be the salary of a couple of CEO's

I agree. Basically no giant retailer wants to spend more and make less.
Unfortunately with the cheap labor AND cheap workmanship (on most products) made overseas this will not change in the near future. And most Americans would not be willing to pay more for the same product just because it was made in the USA.

The Chinese even wanted to name a town "USA" so it could label their goods... made in USA !!!

There is a city in Japan names Usa.

Bill :)

This is an interesting subject for me. We are currently looking at engineered-wood flooring for our home at one of the local, (recommended here), flooring stores. After bringing several samples home, we were narrowing our choice on two maple samples from the same company that were comparable to the Mohawk domestic wood samples but priced $2. to $3. less per sq ft. I went online this evening to see if there was a picture of the flooring we were leaning toward installed in a room or someone's home. To my surprise, the cheaper sample flooring is made in China, a fact not disclosed on their website but by a floor installer. It's known China has created a false value for their currency to undercut the American dollar. If we place an order for Mohawk flooring we may not be creating a new job but it may be job security for a currently employed American. The online article indicated that initially the Chinese product couldn't compare to the American floor products. But several years later, they have copied the engineer-wood so well that it is difficult to tell the difference in American vs China engineered wood flooring product. So, do we lay out the couple of thousand extra dollars and save the jobs here now or pay it out later in taxes for "stimulus" projects to get American people back to work?

That's an interesting situation. I don't know many people that are willing to pay thousands of dollars more for what is basically an equivalent product. Even if you decide to pay the extra money, most people wont, so those jobs will be lost eventually. I believe in a free market, but I am not smart enough to figure out how we can compete with 3rd world labor without losing our middle class. And, isn't that what management is doing when they move jobs out of the country? They are just using the free market to seek out the cheapest labor costs so they can increase their profits and increase their shareholders value. Unless we have people who are willing to work for $5 dollars a day in death traps like the one that just burned to the ground in Bangladesh, those jobs that can be done with cheap labor will never come back.