How about this idea? Every time a US company ships a job out of the country...

[Scuba]

... we hit them with a tax of five times the salary and benefits of said job?


Would that slow it down?

[Vincardog]

1. Congress will not even vote to stop giving them tax breaks for sending jobs overseas

[msongs]

2. maybe if u include congress persons and the president in that penalty clause nt

[truedelphi]

6. Plus ten thousand. When Sallie Mae

Had some pidgin English speaking person call the house about student loans, I realized we are snookered by Congress on the jobs issue.

How hard would it be to enact a law stating that the student loan collection process has to be handled by out of work US students who need the money? Who are fluent in English and can attend the class or two needed to explain various complexities of the student loan process. (The class could be on-line.)

[msongs]

7. when federal student loans were privatized,the screwing began nt

[OhioChick]

3. With corporations owning many politicians....I don't see that ever working n/t

[mmonk]

4. It would never happen. What those companies want, they get.

This isn't a democracy or representative republic. That was in the past.

[valerief]

5. How do you get Congress to do that? Can you buy them like the corporations have? nt

[Initech]

8. Good idea but not gonna happen.