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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:58:17 -0800, "Capt. JG"
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"Joe" wrote in message

Alot of that is changing as well. Dell is moving all it support back
here. They found out they can hire stay at home moms for the same
cost.



Yes. And, even though the raw numbers say that outsourcing such things is
cheaper, the longer view is that it's at least the same cost if not a
higher
cost. We should give business added incentive to keep jobs here with both
tax and other incentives. The "green" technologies (whether or not you
think
they're _required_ due to man-made global climage change) is one industry
that we could capitalize on here.


Conventional tax incentives don't work to keep jobs here. That is
especially true of good paying manufacturing jobs. That has been
tried. However, if they started taxing corporations using a formula
that made a higher "employees to profits" ratio result in a big tax
benefit, it might have a chance.

Obviously, if you do your manufacturing overseas, you would have a
very low "employees to profits" ratio and would pay substantially
higher taxes.

Whatever looks best to shareholders is what will work. In the "olden
days", the stock market viewed adding employees as a sign of a
company's strength. Today it is considered a weakness. That is a
fundemental problem that has to be changed.



We're really dug ourselves a big hole. Both sides of the political divide
have contributed to it. It's going to take a while to fix it, assuming the
politicians have the intestinal fortitude to get it going and assuming the
public holds them to it. Part of the problem is general lack of
understanding of the problem, which is very complex, requiring complex,
multi-faceted solutions. It is really easy to make things sound simple when
they're not.

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