[harpseal]

What about making a penalty for any company that goes off shore. You can go off shore but once a company leaves this country they are banned from selling their product back to us.

I would not have a problem with taht in any way.

[hedgetrimmer]

One suggestiong is to tax international phone lines, so that business calls (like to service centers, and software groups) cost enough that it harmonizes the costs of doing business overseas with the cost of doing business here. Its not a tariff so the "free traders" can't yell protectionism. It is just a usage tax.

Funny what you will tolerate (I don't care for using taxes as a way to manipulate the market) but it may be the only solution to the politician's perfidy.