Super Advanced Manufacturing Initiative

1. The United States has a manufacturing problem.
2. The United States needs a manufacturing policy.
3. The solution to our decrease in manufacturing problem is not tariffs
   1. Tariffs are regressive.
   2. Tariffs cause a regression in efficiency for both the tariffing country and the importer.
   3. Tariffs don’t address the core problem.
   4. The core problem is not enough things being produced in the United States.
   5. The core problem is not the loss of manufacturing jobs.
4. The solution is Super Advanced Manufacturing
   1. The core goal is getting the cost/quality structure of producing goods in the United States down with respect to other countries making said good.
   2. Develop an index that measures the necessity of building certain products in the United States.
   3. This index can be a formula that is applied to any particular product that is either currently not made in the United States or made very little in the United States.
   4. The amount of reward for this product will be applied based on the index score that a particular product enjoys.
5. Incentives are way more powerful than punishment
   1. Tariffs are punishment.
   2. Use something that is uniquely American.
   3. Use the power of the American market.
   4. Use the power of the American educational system.
   5. Incentive rewards will not be paid out until after new cost structure and manufacture at a price lower than foreign competition has been achieved.
6. Reward companies that innovate to produce goods in America at lower costs.
   1. Create new corporate entities whose sole purpose is to seek to make a profit by rewarding companies for making products at a cheaper cost than their counterparts in foreign countries.
   2. This reward is not a subsidy. Subsidies do not work very well and they distort the market.
   3. The reward will come from for-profit entities that are set up to reward companies that achieve a lower cost structure than their competition.
   4. The reward will only be paid out once the company achieves a more favorable price than its competition in other countries and can prove it with an audit of its books.
   5. Once the cost structure is achieved, a payout will happen to the company that achieves it.
   6. The amount of payout is based on the amount of parts and assembly that takes place within the United States.
7. Tariffs only allow a company to make a profit selling to the US. Innovating and making a product cheaper will allow you to sell to the whole world.
8. The Index formula
9. Bring all tariffs to zero regardless of what our trading partners set their tariffs at, except for specific things that we deem necessary for national security.
10. The Criswell Accelerated Competition and Trade Act (CACTA)
    1. Legislation that lays out the details of the act.