Congressman Mac Collins: It's All About Jobs

The Small Business Survival Committee Website ^ | January 16, 2004 | Mac Collins

[RiflemanSharpe]

It is about jobs. This is the stealth issue in 2004, I am just wondering when it will surface.

[TUX]

This is the stealth issue in 2004, I am just wondering when it will surface.

With productivity growing a 8% and the GDP growing a 4% no way the economy and job growth can keep up with the fantastic productivity.

Do the numbers...the Dims have a no loose issue and you can bet they will hammer it this election year.

[xrp]

There was a study done a few years ago, I think it was commissioned by the FairTax organization. The study found out that if corporations weren't taxed (corporations aren't really taxed anyway, they just pass the cost onto the consumer) at all or regulated as much, then businesses from all over the world would build manufacturing facilities in the United States on such a scale that we'd have a large labour shortage. This is due to the relatively high skill of labour that we have in the USA compared to other countries and also the astronomical productivity level by American workers. Amazing what freedom can do for the soul.

If government wants to create jobs, then it needs to get itself out of the way of the companies that will provide them.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Note that he says "manufacturing" jobs -- apparently he's OK with the idea that hi-tech and other non-manufacturing jobs can leave the country.

[Swanks]

Another congressman nervously discovering the 'Jobs' issue close to election time. There is ONE job this guy cares about. His. Period.

The same goes for this lame administration led by Rove and gang. The come at the election cycle like the own all of 2000 votes and just need to a get a Red state or two.

They're gonna be surprised come Election day.

[trebb]

He focuses on manufacturing jobs because that's the biggest area that the government has been able to stifle (read taxes and regulations, favorites of "liberals"). The fact is that the trend has been more and more toward services and away from manufacturing for 15 - 20 years and that's where it will continue.

I just love how the Dims will outlaw wheat, then bitch about the shortage of bread...

[RiflemanSharpe]

The need to wake up now.

[quack]

If government wants to create jobs, then it needs to get itself out of the way of the companies that will provide them.

As a small business owner,I've got one word for that statement.BINGO!

[NYDave]

<<"If government wants to create jobs, then it needs to get itself out of the way of the companies that will provide them.">>

Yes, and those companies will provide them for the folks in India, China, etc., etc. I'm not just talking about manufacturing jobs but the exploding exodus of high-tech white collar jobs. I can't really fault a company for seeking cheaper labor, but if gov. wants to get involved, let it show a little patriotism and not make it so cheap for corps. to send these jobs off-shore. And, of course, we can all retrain and change our career focuses (I've done that a few times in my life) but there is a limit. The corps are only interested in the quarter to quarter bottom line for their investors (read fund managers) to keep their earnings on the up-tick. The gov. should be concerned about the eroding consumer and tax base. If we are all earning less money then, obviously, we will spend less and pay less. The medium to longer consequenses should be of concern to all. This off-shoring bubble may burst one day but the results could be pretty ugly.

[templar]

If government wants to create jobs, then it needs to get itself out of the way of the companies that will provide them.

It will be interesting to see if the Democrats mention this as a part of the solution. Or the Republicans, for that matter.

[ravingnutter]

It is about jobs. This is the stealth issue in 2004, I am just wondering when it will surface.

It has...just under the radar of most:

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2004 01:13:33 AM ] NEW DELHI: The passage of the omnibus-spending Bill with a provision to ban outsourcing by the US Senate has highlighted the central role that outsourcing or more importantly the loss of American jobs will play on the forthcoming US elections.

The Senate ban is effective only on the US companies while they are executing federal projects. This would mean that firms in the US which win federal contracts can not subcontract the project to companies outside the US.

Bush unlikely to veto outsourcing ban Bill

That takes care of the Federal sector, apparently the bill outlined in this article deals with the private sector. Of course, you will hear the incessant screams of the left about the GOP being in the pocket of big corporations, but then, what's new about that?

[templar]

The gov. should be concerned about the eroding consumer and tax base.

The government, the politicians running it really, seems only to be concerned in campaign money: getting re-elected. I doubt that they really care much who is providing that money, Americans or foreigners (through American sources as well as directly) as long as it keeps coming in.

[KevinDavis]

Exactly, all of the Tariffs in the world is not going to stop manufacturing jobs from moving overseas. We are overtaxed and over regulated.

[Cobra64]

There should be NO corporate income tax. It's illogical and therefore stupid.

[TexasRepublic]

National security still ranks as the #1 issue, but illegal immigration and loss of jobs overseas are related to national security. The politicians are ignoring not one, but two elephants hiding behind the sofa. What the hell? President Bush, are you listening?

[kittymyrib]

Actually, I think every company outsourcing jobs ought to have to pay a Relocation of Employment Fee, which would be the amount of lost tax revenue to the government on the job that has been moved. Otherwise, the fortunate few who still have jobs in the US will have to make up the taxes from all the millions of jobs being done in India and China which contribute nothing in the way of income taxes and Social Security taxes.

[Cobra64]

Actually, I think every company outsourcing jobs ought to have to pay a Relocation of Employment Fee, which would be the amount of lost tax revenue to the government on the job that has been moved. Otherwise, the fortunate few who still have jobs in the US will have to make up the taxes from all the millions of jobs being done in India and China which contribute nothing in the way of income taxes and Social Security taxes.

Not a bad perspective. I just don't like all the bureacracy this would entail.

[NYDave]

I agree that this is a year when the pols. are not going to focus, seriously, on issues. They will just spew out sound bites that make everyone feel warm and fuzzy. The pols. are also in need of the corp. contributions (and Kerry takes them, it's not all ketchup money) and they don't want to ruffle the feathers of the corp. big-wigs. We live in a fascist state where, instead of the gov. running the corps,
the corps run the gov. I voted for Bush but won't make that mistake this time around. He is part of the problem, not the solution. He is very much in bed with corp. America and, unfortunately, so are all of the others.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I've been waiting for it to surface since Big Steel started shutting down in 1980. It hasn't happened yet.
Must say I am stunned!