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“Can someone explain to me how anyone could back tax breaks for corporations moving jobs overseas?”

I simply don’t understand any jusification for this.

Very simple. Outsourcing concerns have lobbyists too:

http://nearshoreamericas.com/outsourcing-lobbyists-global-outsourcing2341/
Backed by Big Indian Firms, Lobbyists Fight Anti-Outsourcing Attacks

January 25th, 2010 Share0

Melanie Carter-Maguire and Robert Hoffman are regulars at Capitol Hill, rubbing shoulders with lawmakers to try and influence events at the centre of US power. But the two lobbyists have perhaps their toughest assignments yet, as they brace to drum up support for their companies on immigration and outsourcing, high-strung issues in the US after the Great Recession.

Ms Maguire, who was hired by India’s third-largest software exporter Wipro last week, and Mr Hoffman, who joined as first vice-president of global public policy last year at Cognizant, another top IT company, have been entrusted with pushing their companies’ cases in a key market where the public outcry against outsourcing is getting shriller by the day.

India’s $60-billion technology services industry, which has had a largely uninterrupted run in its key market, has recognised that political lobbying is the need of the hour to educate local lawmakers about the economic benefits of outsourcing, after ballooning unemployment has exacerbated the cry against foreign tech companies. The task has been made more difficult by the US jobless rate galloping to double digits. US policymakers are under pressure to tighten immigration norms for protecting local jobs in software programming, call centres and legal paperwork.

“For global companies like Cognizant, there is a simple truth: government matters. Whether it’s in New Delhi, Washington, Beijing or Brussels, decisions made by legislators and regulators have a direct bearing on a company’s ability to compete and grow, and provide a unique experience to its customers,” Mr Hoffman said in an interview.

And those lobbyists have found good friends in the RINOs we keep sending back to screw us.