>Obama plans to tax companies that move job offshore. So, if the taxes hurt the companies enough, the jobs will be back.

That is all happy talk if you are being affected by layoffs and offshoring.

HOWEVER, unless you kill free trade at the same time, you would give foreign owned companies a big advantage, with obvious results.

IF you then kill free trade to lock out the "advantaged" foreign companies, you will crash the economy just like the great depression.

Not good.