It's summertime. It's hot in our nation's capital and no one wants to stick around Washington DC. So hot on the heels of voting for a debt ceiling bill that did little more than buy the Republicans some time to come up with the next scheme, Congress is looking more toward getting out of town than doing the nation's business.
For a second time, the Democrats in the Senate proposed a bill that would tax the companies who send jobs out of the US. Millions of jobs have been lost to Americans over the past few years, and while some of them have been a direct result of the recession, it all started when major companies became more concerned over profits than company employees and began outsourcing jobs by the thousands. The bill introduced by the Deomocrats in the Senate would cost these companies more money in the form of a tax. The same bill would reward those companies who brought jobs back to the US.
Not surprising the Republicans blocked the bill…again.
Not only did they block the bill, the Republicans accused the Democrats of only trying to "score points" with the American voters. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell not only accused the Democrats of pretending to care about the American worker, he went on to accuse the Democrats of having no interest in passing the bill and an insult to Americans who want Congress to focus on jobs. And if that wasn't enough McConnell said, "Congress should instead be using the final days of the session to extend the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the highest income levels."
Arizona's Jon Kyl actually DEFENDED the companies that send jobs overseas instead of hiring American workers in the US, saying, the bill wrongly assumes that all foreign expansion stems from greed and that foreign expansion only hurts American workers."
Senate Leader Harry Reid wonders whose side the Republicans are on and feels that the Republicans are interested only in keeping the corporate tax loopholes as wide as possible.
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