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Byron Dorgan: Yes, we have that kind of loophole. It is a perverse, insidious loophole in our Tax Code that says: Shut down your U.S.…

On the recordOctober 5, 2004
Yes, we have that kind of loophole. It is a perverse, insidious loophole in our Tax Code that says: Shut down your U.S. manufacturing plant, get rid of your U.S. employees and outsource those jobs, and, God bless you, while you leave this country, we will give you a tax cut. Talk about a perverse incentive to do exactly the wrong thing, that is it.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing a tax loophole that incentivizes outsourcing American jobs.

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