Republican's offshoring double standard

Sweet Lou 4 2 · Dec 6, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ave-a-double-standard/?utm_term=.944feaeddc37

In the thick of his reelection campaign in 2012, President Obama devoted six paragraphs in his State of the Union address to his plans to reverse a flow of factory jobs to foreign countries.

He called to end tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs, to cut taxes for domestic manufacturers and to levy a minimum tax on multinational corporations. He implored businesses to “ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country,” and he told Congress, “It is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America.”

“Send me these tax reforms,” Obama said, “and I will sign them right away.”

Congress — including the Republican-held House of Representatives — never sent Obama any of those reforms. In the official Republican response to the speech, the then-governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, chided him for not focusing on a different economic issue, the growing national debt. Later that year, the GOP nominee for president, Mitt Romney, declared in a debate with Obama that “the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case.”
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