Republicans tout high-tech agenda (i.e. more tax cuts/less regulation)

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Republicans tout high-tech agenda

By Anne Broache, CNET News.com

WASHINGTON--Republican leaders from the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday promoted a series of policy proposals they hope will keep the nation's already-flourishing tech industry dominant in the future.

"Competitiveness" was the buzzword at a press conference in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, where House Speaker Dennis Hastert and 10 House leaders from the Republican High-Tech Working Group talked up a wide-ranging agenda tied closely to goals outlined by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last month.

"In short, America needs an education system that produces the finest students in the world, who enter an economy that is not hampered by regulatory red tape, frivolous lawsuits and an anticompetitive tax structure," Hastert said.
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A copy of that bill was not readily available. A summary sheet suggested the measure would aim at promoting research and development, increasing investment in math and science education, and eliminating "cumbersome regulations" and "stifling taxation" for technology companies. It would also include a section aimed at cutting back on so-called frivolous lawsuits of all sorts and proposals designed to create incentives for digitizing the health care system.

So that's it folks. All of those outsourced jobs will come flooding back into this country once the Republicans get rid of the excess taxation and regulation on tech businesses. :eyes:

[Deja Q]

1. To make it 'competitive', wages have to be cut...

Trouble is, the same corporate execs who see "competition" SOLELY as "jobs go to the lowest bidder" will not reduce prices to compensate.

The cost of living itself goes through the roof.

Not very viable in the long run, is it?

Also, if everything is done to the lowest bidder, that's hardly progress or stagnation. It's a state of decay.

Oh, colleges need to become affordable too.

And regulation is ALWAYS necessary to a degree.

No regulation is tantamount to anarchy; where the biggest fish eat the small one.

On the plus side, that sharp-taloned hawk ultimately eats the big fish.

And is the name of that hungry hawk "China"?

[Mithras61]

5. These same execs are the ones...

getting salaries in the "hundreds of times average worker pay scale" range and don't think for even a fraction of a second that their ridiculous salary has anything to do with the company's conpetitivness. We scrape by while they enrich themselves, and when things collapse, they'll have all the money they need to be able to go on to the next thing while we starve.

[tom_paine]

2. High-tech, sounds medeval, actually

I believe the Dark Ages were the time of Bushevism Triumphant. Low tax rates for the wealthy and no regulations.

Also, liberal-burning was fun and legal.

[BattyDem]

3. No regulations for corporations.

Individual people, however, will have every aspect of their lives regulated! :eyes: :grr:

[Mithras61]

4. I guess it must be the "red tape"...

that certainly explains why my employer keeps trying to send my job to India. I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with the $26/hour pay differential (I am still employed because of the fact that I can STILL do the job for less total cost). No, my employers desire to send jobs overseas doesn't have anything to do with government red tape, taxation or the availability of high-tech professionals here. It's because they think they can get the same job done for less money. Of course, I consider it my patriotic duty to prove them wrong repeatedly. :D


I keep my job because I know the product better than almost anyone except the engineers who design it (and many of them are in India!).

[rodeodance]

6. we do not need digitizing the health care system.--we need people to

be cared for--nursing and medical care!



......or digitizing the health care system.

[pdurod1]

7. less gov't = more powerful corporations + more corruption + more outsource

There a reason for doing business in the most powerful/secure nation: your property and business are protected by the most powerful military and law enforcement in the world. Not to mention we actually have a justice system. I dare a corporation to set-up shop in Somalia. Let's show these greedy corporations the door.

[ShockediSay]

9. you said it

all in the subject line of your post

[VegasWolf]

8. Weird to see Republicans and high-tech in the same sentence. They

usually are pretty afraid of science.