pssst....Obama campaign....would you PLEASE use what's on your website to talk about the economy?

[antigop]

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/#trade

Trade

Obama and Biden believe that trade with foreign nations should strengthen the American economy and create more American jobs. He will stand firm against agreements that undermine our economic security.

* Fight for Fair Trade: Obama and Biden will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. They will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up to those important benchmarks. Obama and Biden will also pressure the World Trade Organization to enforce trade agreements and stop countries from continuing unfair government subsidies to foreign exporters and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports.
* Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement: Obama and Biden believe that NAFTA and its potential were oversold to the American people. They will work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to fix NAFTA so that it works for American workers.
* Improve Transition Assistance: To help all workers adapt to a rapidly changing economy, Obama and Biden will update the existing system of Trade Adjustment Assistance by extending it to service industries, creating flexible education accounts to help workers retrain, and providing retraining assistance for workers in sectors of the economy vulnerable to dislocation before they lose their jobs.
* End Tax Breaks for Companies that Send Jobs Overseas: Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that companies should not get billions of dollars in tax deductions for moving their operations overseas. Obama and Biden will also fight to ensure that public contracts are awarded to companies that are committed to American workers.
* Reward Companies that Support American Workers: Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 with Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to reward companies that create good jobs with good benefits for American workers. The legislation would provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America if it has ever been in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.

These are all winners...but PLEASE bring up the fact that you want to stop the shipping of jobs overseas.

[antigop]

1. kick n/t

[Jennicut]

2. He has mentioned it and Biden mentioned it in the debate with Mooselady

[antigop]

3. I do not believe Biden or Obama has mentioned they will support repeal of tax breaks for

companies that ship jobs overseas.

I will check the transcripts.

[Peacetrain]

5. He says it ALL the time.. In fact that is what first attracted me in

July 2007,.. He was the first to say it. That has been one of the cornerstones of his economic plan

[antigop]

9. I can find NO mention in the transcript from last night's debate n/t

[antigop]

7. Transcript of Biden-Palin debate-- please show me where Biden mentioned it

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/debate.transcript/index.html

[1corona4u]

4. I've heard him say it a lot.

Almost every tine he's on the tee vee.

[antigop]

6. During the debates? n/t

[Jennicut]

10. In Biden's debate right here:

"The bottom line here is that we are going to, in fact, eliminate those wasteful spending that exist in the budget right now, a number of things I don't have time, because the light is blinking, that I won't be able to mention, but one of which is the $100 billion tax dodge that, in fact, allows people to take their post office box off- shore, avoid taxes."

Off shore taxes. Closing the loophole. Biden mentioned it. I don't think Obama did. Hopefully he will in the next debate.

[antigop]

12. No, that's not the same thing. n/t

[antigop]

13. Here is the tax break I'm referring to--

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2008-03-20-corporate-tax-offshoring_N.htm

At issue is the U.S. tax code's treatment of profits earned by foreign subsidiaries of American corporations. Profits earned in the United States are subject to the 35% corporate tax. But multinational corporations can defer paying U.S. taxes on their overseas profits until they return them to the USA — transfers that often don't happen for years. General Electric, for example, has $62 billion in "undistributed earnings" parked offshore, according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Drug giant Pfizer boasts $60 billion. ExxonMobil has $56 billion.

"If you had two companies in Pittsburgh that both were going to expand capacity and create 100 jobs, our tax code puts the company who chooses to put the plant in Pittsburgh at a competitive disadvantage over the company that chooses to move to a tax haven," says former White House economist Gene Sperling, a Clinton adviser.

This is not the same as what Biden was referring to.

It is the tax break that is referred to on the Obama campaign website.

[antigop]

8. Transcript of second debate -- I can find NO mention....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/presidential.debate.transcript/

He did mention it in the first debate, but I didn't hear anything last night
First debate transcript

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/26/debate.mississippi.transcript/

OBAMA: I -- I don't know where John is getting his figures. Let's just be clear.

What I do is I close corporate loopholes, stop providing tax cuts to corporations that are shipping jobs overseas so that we're giving tax breaks to companies that are investing here in the United States.

[antigop]

11. He needs to mention it in the debates. n/t

[OhioChick]

14. K&R

I want to hear more of this:

* End Tax Breaks for Companies that Send Jobs Overseas: Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that companies should not get billions of dollars in tax deductions for moving their operations overseas. Obama and Biden will also fight to ensure that public contracts are awarded to companies that are committed to American workers.

If he pounded these issues home, he'd have a 20 pt. lead over Obama!

[ChromeFoundry]

15. Agreed. Very Important Issues! n/t

[ihavenobias]

16. To the greatest n/t

[Azlady]

17. These are so important

I believe Obama did say in the debate last night that we need to stop giving tax breaks to Corporations that take jobs overseas.

[antigop]

19. I can't find any reference in the transcript. If you can, please post. Thx.. n/t

[TooRaLoo]

18. He spent quite a bit of time on this just now in Indiana. nt

[antigop]

20. Great! He needs to hit everyone of those points in the OP--at every opportunity. n/t

[yodermon]

21. Huh? he says that in every stump speech.

actually the first 3 bullets get less airplay, and should bear repeating.

[antigop]

22. He needs to mention all of those bullets during the debates. n/t

[No Elephants]

23. Did you call or email the Obama campaign and suggest this?

[antigop]

24. Yes, I did. I'm hoping his campaign also reads DU. n/t