Fantastic post, all the way around. We do not want to re-shore jobs stitching together Nikes or making plastic toy soldiers or screwing together small low-cost electronic components. Industry that implicates national security provides higher wage jobs (read: "manufacturing jobs that require a bunny suit and/or real technical training")? You bet. And there are ways to do that......
Bingo. Capital is much easier to attract than it is to compel. Because once you've held capital at gunpoint, it correctly fears that you'll do so again, so it is loathe to commit itself long-term.
Imagine spotting an attractive girl in a bar. She's been talking to another guy. So, you walk up to her, pull a gun, and say "you're coming with me. You are going to move in with me, we're going to get married, and have a long and happy life together." She will most likely go with you right then, because....you fucking have her at gun point. But the minute she thinks she can get away -- not necessarily to run back to some other dude, but specifically to get away from YOU, the erratic psycho with a gun -- she will. And she ain't coming back.
We are trying to force capital to do things that don't make long-term sense at gunpoint. The only way that has any chance of success is to keep the gun on them, 24/7 for eternity. And even then....they'll find ways to game the system and get as much as they can far away from the barrel of our gun.
We're doing this the completely wrong way. Which is maddening, because the CHIPS act was an example of how to do it the right way.
And nevermind how counterproductive this is when it comes to immigration. We want people from south of the border to stay home. The KEY way to get them to do so is to help their countries become stable and prosperous. So, what do we do? Undermine their whole economy because they all are -- Mexico, Honduras, everyone on earth -- "ripping us off." We're being "ripped off" by a country with a per capita income of $6,650. Jesus monkeyfuck, the stupidity.