Purpose of any Company is Profits - screw the workers

[Clodfobble]

“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

Why wouldn't they just do that now? It's cheaper, but not cheaper enough?

It's because there's a skill limit to what you can outsource, plain and simple, and most companies who significantly outsourced learned this the hard way in the last 5 years. The innovation still happens here. If the other countries had it, they'd be competing against us with their own companies, not trying to siphon off our low-skill jobs. When's the last time we outsourced anything to, say, Japan? We don't, because their workers are just as expensive as ours, because their overall skill level is commensurate with ours. Ballmer's just using PR scare tactics to get out of paying higher corporate taxes.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Why wouldn't they just do that now? It's cheaper, but not cheaper enough?

All I was saying is that they can incorporate the company overseas. Nothing really changes but the paperwork and the tax liability. I don't profess to be an expert. That is why I posed the question in the first place. I'm not talking about outsourcing jobs, just the tax liability, so to speak.