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India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada
securitas writes "Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada. The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers."
He could of introduced plenty of bills supporting his current election platform as a senator, why didn't he? What makes you think he'll do it now if elected president? Just asking.
That's a good question. I've heard it said that there's practically nothing that made it out of the Senate with John Kerry's name attached to it. Nothing.
The President of the United States, by design, cannot initiate any bills. He can tell Congress what he would like to see, but that's no guarantee that he'll see it, or that he'll get it.
People running for the highest office of the land have often stumped, claiming that they would do such-n-such a thing, and people accept it as if it were a done deal. Why is that?
Senator Kerry has had twenty years to get bills out to the president, and he has not. It's not because he can't get his point across-- we've seen from the presidential debates that John Kerry is a very able speaker. I think the problem is that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and he is therefore not motivated to do much, unless it will make himself look better.
If John Kerry will not do anything useful for anyone else while he's in a position to convince his peers to agree on bills to send to the president, why should we believe that he'll take an active roll for the American people as president? We can't, and history proves that we would be gravely mistaken if we did.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
The Loosers always blame the winners ,
Kerry's not against outsourcing when he makes money from it - just like he really enjoys the 15% tax rate he and Tereza paid last year. And just you wait who he defines as "rich" and therefore due for a tax increase if he's elected.
I don't know if his wife would let him close the loopholes. Heinz has almost 100 factories and most of them are not in the US.
Yes, I know she doesn't control the company. Yes, I know she has no control over business decisions. But I also know that she rakes in a good amount of money from her 4% ownership.
Despite Snopes saying that my ketchup is made in America, my bottle says it came from Canada.
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