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Originally Posted by Robbie
EDIT: I also have seen a lot of talk about EVIL corporations sending jobs out of the U.S.
Well, the BIGGEST exporter of jobs and MONEY from the U.S. to foreign countries is....The U.S. military. They DWARF in size any company in the United States in spending our money in foreign countries and supporting their economies by creating millions of service industry jobs and businesses around the world.
Think about that the next time you bitch about companies having to build a factory in another country because our govt. makes it so damn expensive to do business here.
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You're leaving out the cheap overseas labor factor. Companies that are primarily motivated by that consideration are going to keep shipping jobs overseas no matter how much or how little Uncle Sam taxes them.
That is... unless the government actually got smart and used the tax codes to sufficiently reward companies that create (and bring back) jobs
here and penalize those who do otherwise.
Properly implemented, such a plan would be a win win for everybody. The companies that play ball would still be looking at roughly the same bottom line as at present and the government would recoup the lost tax revenues from those company's newly employed workers. Moreover, by keeping that money in
this country the ripple effect would benefit the local communities (and thereby Uncle Sam) as well
Of course, the problem with such an idea, is that it would need to be implemented by a government that is both competent and honest.
And therein lies the rub
