Finding a way to eliminate the perverse
incentives that lead to the export of U.S. jobs and technology,"
says Randy Barber of the Center for Economic Organizing, is
absolutely essential.From tax deductions that support
outsourcing to foreign aid deals and bribe-like offsets that
promote job shifting abroad, we are facing a strategy by
companies seeking to globalize both the products and services
they offer," claims Barber.
Barber demands an accounting of tax benefits taken by
out-sourcing in industries like defense, commercial aerospace
and telecommunications.
In almost every telecommunications deal being made today,
there are offsets and technology transfers," says Barber. The
practice now goes far beyond aerospace industry."
Barber also wants to label services produced abroad and
consumed unknowingly in the U.S. and Canada.
Just as we require country of origin statements for every
toy, electronic device and automobile sold in the U.S. and
Canada, we should insist that services such as call centers,
telemarketing activities and software coding carry labels to the
effect they were serviced in India, China, Russia or Mexico,"
said Barber.
