House Republicans Block "Bring Jobs Home Act"

[Bill USA]

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/House-Republicans-Say-Don-t-Bring-Jobs-Home

House Republicans today decided it’s more important to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, which has helped hundreds of millions of U.S. families, than it is to pass legislation to bring back some of the 6 million jobs that have been shipped overseas in the past decade.

During this afternoon’s debate on the Republican bill to repeal the health care reform law, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld June 28, Democrats offered a measure opening the door for a vote on the Bring Jobs Home Act (H.R.5542). But Republicans blocked the measure by 238-184.

Working families around the country are mobilizing to build support for the bill, which would eliminate tax breaks that allow companies to deduct expenses associated with moving operations overseas and would provide a tax credit to corporations that bring jobs back to the United States.

The Senate is expected to take up its version of the bill (S. 2884) later this month.

Good Jobs, Apple Pie Toomey Denies Both

Good jobs should be as American as apple pie, but U.S. corporations have shipped somesix million American jobs overseas in the past decade. Yesterday in Pittsburgh, more than 200 union members told U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that it’s time to “Bring Jobs Home.”

Hoping to talk to Toomey or his staff to urge support for the Bring Jobs Home Act (S. 2884), the activists from 19 unions and labor groups marched to Toomey’s home office. But even the offering of an All-American, union-made apple pie (courtesy of Food and Commercial Workers [UFCW] Local 23) couldn’t get the group in the door.

Before they were denied access, United Steelworker (USW) Secretary-Treasurer Stan Johnson told a pre-march rally:

"No one working a job in this country today is safe from outsourcing. It’s time to stop corporations from getting tax credits for sending our jobs overseas."

That’s one of the key provisions of the Bring Jobs Home Act, eliminating tax breaks that allow companies to deduct expenses associated with moving operations overseas. It also would provide a tax credit to corporations that bring jobs back to the United States.
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[SDjack]

1. I didn't see in MSM a question to rMoney if he supported the "Bring Jobs Home Act".

Most likely, he doesn't because the cancellation of tax breaks for expenses to move a company to a foreign company is in GOP eyes a tax increase. We can't a tax increase, but using taxpayer money to export our factories and jobs is OK.

[qwlauren35]

2. Excuse my ignorance...

Didn't Obama push for this months ago? Last September maybe? Why hasn't it happened yet? It's such a no-brainer.

[jade3000]

3. Why is this the right angle?

I'm sorry, explain to me again why I should want Americans to have jobs rather than, say, Chinese, Nigerians, or Brazilians? This is the wrong angle, imo. Instead, we should focus on extending protections for workers around the globe--safety, health, wages, etc. And let the chips (jobs) fall where they may. Of course, we should get rid of the tax break, but I don't see a reason to replace it with another one.