10 House Democrats Join GOP To Protect Offshore Bank Accounts And Job Outsourcing

At the end of last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 6169, a Republican economic bill that would give millionaires and billionaires lower tax rates, supposedly in the interest of creating jobs. Of course, after George W. Bush and Congress teamed up to lower tax rates on millionaires and billionaires, jobs were not created. Jobs were lost. So, there?s no good reason to think that H.R. 6169, if passed into law, would do anything but harm to employment prospects in the United States.

However, U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter tried to fix that. She offered an amendment to H. 6169 that would have ended tax incentives for corporations to move American manufacturing jobs to foreign countries. The Slaughter amendment would also have ended tax exemptions for overseas accounts in places like the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas, shelters that the wealthy use to evade their responsibility as citizens of the United States.

Not a single Republican voted for Slaughter?s amendment. Not all Democrats voted for it, however. Ten Democrats joined the Republicans, voting to protect secret offshore bank accounts and to help corporations move jobs outside of the United States.

These ten anti-jobs Democrats were:

- Dan Boren ? retiring from the House of Representatives at the end of the year
- Jim Cooper, who is being challenged from the left this year by Green Party candidate John Miglietta
- Jim Costa, who is switching over to California?s new 16th district this year
- Joe Donnelly, who is leaving the House of Representatives to campaign for a U.S. Senate seat this year
- Larry Kissell, the incumbent in North Carolina?s 8th congressional district
- Dan Lipinski, the incumbent in 3rd congressional district of Illinois
- Jim Matheson, challenged this year by Justice Party candidate Torin Nelson
- Mike McIntyre, the incumbent in North Carolina?s 7th congressional district
- Adam Schiff, considered the incumbent in California?s new 28th congressional district
- Heath Shuler, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year.

The next time you get an email or telephone call from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee asking for a donation, ask what the DCCC intends to do about these serially anti-populist Democratic members of Congress.

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Source: http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2012/08/05/10-house-democrats-join-gop-to-protect-offshore-bank-accouts-and-job-outsourcing/

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