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An Interesting Topic Of Taxation

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The Observer illustrated an interesting topic of taxation. New York Senator Charles Schumer has introduced a call for a new type of taxation. He proposed “a tax on customer service calls being outsourced to another county” (The Observer, 2015). While the tax sounds a bit odd at first, there is actually for rhyme to the senator’s reasoning. The senator’s goal is to ultimately keep more jobs on United States soil. Many jobs in the United States have been lost to cheaper labor overseas. This proposal aims to bringing someone of those jobs back to America by implementing a high taxation on customer service phone calls that are being answered outside of the United States. Schumer’s policy states, “the tax per outsourced call would be 25 cents for the company. In addition to informing the caller of this, companies would be required to release reports quarterly on total calls and the percent outsourced” (The Observer, 2015). This would be a hefty tax if implemented and would frustrate many companies. However, the senator’s goal is job creation. The purpose of this homework is to analyze this proposed taxation, propose two reasons for and two reasons again Senator Schumer’s policy, and to then expand on my opinion of this policy.
Supporting Reasoning
1. The first reason to support this proposal is because it is aimed at one thing; job creation. After The Great Recession, people have been doing everything possible in order to create more jobs for the unemployed workers of

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