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Outsourcing
Monday, January 29 at 3:13 PM

Vincent Carroll’s latest ‘nya-nya!’ column (25 Jan) says that even if our middle-class IS being seriously harmed by outsourcing, there’s nothing we can do about it.
However, there are several measures we could adopt:
—first, stop laying a FICA tax on every dollar that firms pay to US workers,without taxing their money for foreign workers.
—second, wipe out pointless tax-breaks for the wealthy;
—third, use the extra money to GIVE tax-breaks to firms INSOFAR AS they hire Americans!
What Carroll is gloating about is the undoubted fact that our one-party Republicrat system WON’T do anything to mitigate outsourcing harm to our middle-class workers.

Dan Lyons
Fort Collins

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READER COMMENTS

Hey Dan,
Newsflash!!! Since approximately 1992, there have been about 6 MILLION jobs INSOURCED into America by companies like Toyota, BMW, Seimens, Honda, ABB, Nissan, Autoliv, Mercedes Benz, and a host of other not so recognizable names. In that sdame time the US has probably lost several hundred thousand jobs to outsourcing. Let's say 500,000 to make it easy. Do you see the ratio of jobs gained vs. jobs lost??? That is what globalization and a global economy is all about. The outsource/insource thing cuts both ways. So far the US has been the beneficiary of this new world economy. Do not be so quick to condemn it.

Posted by Michael on January 31, 2007 06:34 AM

My tech job is soon to be outsourced. My husband's job in new construction has already been insourced. (Yes, illegals actually do work up the ladder, displacing licensed plumber, electrican, heating & cooling workers.) Where does that leave us middle-class American citizens?

Posted by dks on February 1, 2007 11:00 AM

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