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> But here again, our chief economist appears to be ignorant of basic 
> U.S. tax law. When a U.S. corporation manufactures in the United 
> States, its income is subject to U.S. tax at a nominal rate of 35 
> percent. If the same corporation moves those jobs to some other 
> country, it can normally structure the deal to reduce its U.S. taxes 
> to zero. That's right, zero.
>
> What this means is that the standard economists' assumption, "all else 
> being equal," is simply not true. Current U.S. tax rules create a 
> strong artificial incentive to move business offshore. Until recently, 
> the one big disadvantage of doing so was that it was then hard to 
> bring the resulting profits back to the United States. The most recent 
> Bush tax act helped solve this problem by cutting U.S. taxes on the 
> repatriation of offshore profits. In other words, the most recent Bush 
> tax act made these artificial incentives to move business offshore 
> even stronger.
>

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