President
Barack Obama is very insistent on the need to “save American jobs.”
The spending and the Buy American provisions of his massive
stimulus package, approved by Congress in February, were meant to
“create or save” millions of U.S. jobs. “Saving jobs” was also the
stated goal of his recent pledge to eliminate tax advantages for
companies that do business overseas. But as Veronique de Rugy
writes, instead of saving American jobs, Obama’s new corporate tax
is apt to worsen what is already the highest unemployment since
1983 and make America’s companies even less competitive in the
global marketplace.
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