US tax returns to India causing stir

THE TIMES OF INDIA ^ | APRIL 16, 2003 | CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

[Beck_isright]

"There is a good chance the Indians will lose the forms and the IRS will have to sue them."

The IRS never blames it's contractors. They will claim you never filed and slam you with penalties. The man with the gun always wins.

[plusone]

True, those types of sevices are hard to export. But if everyone else is un/under-employed, who will have the money to hire plumbers, electricians, mechanics, etc?

[plusone]

Let's outsource the politicians. Bring in Russian politicians. Twice as corrupt, but work for only a tenth the price. A deal!!!

[Beck_isright]

At least the Russian politicians had the cahones to pass a flat tax. Don't look for our cowards to ever do that in our lifetime.

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[Fee]

That is why country club types, upper middle class types do not want the private American to own guns. That way they can export all the jobs, maximize the profits, go home to their gated communities serviced by their own armed security forces while the rest of us, unarmed and helpless watch from the outside in poverty. If it gets that bad, any poor person who can fashion a knife will be lethal. Think about it, they have to leave their homes to go shopping somewhere.

[Cultural Jihad]

Shrinking salaraies of American programmers is not good. The plus side is that if you are a program consumer, the prices are not as high as they would be otherwise. Should we repeal the law of supply and demand?

[nopardons]

The salaries were going to shrink anyway. The " BOOM burst with the BUBBLE. It's not unlike the doomed whaling industry, but better, since no one is about to give up computers, as they did corsets and whale oil for lamps.It's closer to blacksmithing.

[Beck_isright]

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If it's ok to ship off manufacturing jobs, it's ok to ship of I.T. jobs. We can not have a double standard. But I still think there are better ways to do this than we have. We are going to weaken our ability to innovate if all the programmers have to become plumbers, etc. This is not wise policy, IMHO.

[busybody]

Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire Freepers ... let's stop whining about how are jobs are being sent overseas and actually do something about it. See my post at the following link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894818/posts

[USMMA_83]

How does a blind woman know she's in the Bay area as opposed to Boise? You sound like another excuse monger...get a life, and quite bitching....

[Cultural Jihad]

Well, the retired investors who hire the programmers to begin with get a higher return on their investments, which they can then plow back into the economy to create more jobs. I agree there are concerns about manufacturing moving overseas, which might not be in our longterm self-interest. We could raise taxes and subsidize local steel and shipbuilding trades, etc. to a certain extent. But the trend is toward globalization, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in my estimation.

[Cultural Jihad]

Hehehe. Marketing jobs will never be outsourced to, say, China or India. A marketing person needs to know English and local culture. That is one reason that Chinese and Indians are prevalent in the abstract sciences and technical fields, mostly because their skills transcend language barriers.

[NYC Republican]

When will the backlash begin??? Here's what I mean...

Right now, American Express and countless others utilize India and other countries as a source of cheap labor... What would happen if a smaller up-and-coming financial industry advertises by saying that "we support the American worker and American economy, we don't outsource, and only hire Americans".

Think about it. I would probably switch, if only because I'm in the financial industry. I'm sure others would too.

All things being equal, why wouldn't we bank/have credit cards/shop somewhere where Americans are being assisted by our hard-earned dollars?

Any thoughts?

[NYC Republican]

Do you really think that can't be taught? Do you have any idea how often we call a credit card company, thinking we're talking to an American, when it's an Indian from India? They are shipped over here, spend considerable time learning English and getting rid of the accent.

Don't believe me? Look it up. Or better yet, next time, ask them. They may tell you the truth

[USMMA_83]

Think again! Indian nurses and teachers are being recruited in India at an alarming rate. American's just don't want to get into the nursing and teaching professions. They all want to be wall street brokers, etc. All want easy money without having to learn biologoy, chemestry and calculus. That will be our downfall! The fact that the average highschool graduate does not know elementry statistics is a heads-up to everyone concerned. At some point, we decided that an MBA was the ideal, while a poor sob who studies Math, physics or Chemestry is a geek to be laughed at.

[USMMA_83]

You are in trouble...trust me. Take a flight to Banglore, and see for yourself. Most special effects work is being done here now.

[aruanan]

I don't think this is a good idea at all.

You're not an American CPA charging big bucks to do someone's taxes and living like a parasite off the misery created by the U.S. tax code, are you?

[meatloaf]

You obviously didn't read the NYT article about the Philipine government setting up effective ways of training amd enabling nurses to take jobs in other countries and sending the money home.

B O H I C A !

[Arthalion]

We're setting ourselves up for one hell of a fall. In the future, terrorists won't need to fly jumbo jets into skyscrapers to attack America, they can simply cut a few strands of trans-Pacific fiber and watch our economy implode as the "workforce" is disconnected from the "home office". Of course, I figure that the chronic unemployment caused by millions of outsourced jobs will probably be imploding our economy on its own by then.

The U.S. was created as a free market, but even the founding fathers understood the need to impose tarriffs to protect our own citizens from foreign predation. We need a 500% yearly "job export" tarriff NOW, but since both the Republicans and Democrats seem to be quite comfortable in their corporate-pocket homes, I doubt we'll see that any time soon.