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To: Dinesh who wrote (59461)	3/12/2004 12:37:58 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

In the end, who cares about your opinion? Not IBM, not CISCO, not BP, not INTEL, not SUN, not YAHOO, not HP, not ACCENTURE, and about a thousand other business -- you see, they all "outsource". Are you sure you saw the first article about what was at stake in the infosys case. The ability of california to tax infosys on the entire product produced, offshore and onshore - the services equivalent of a tariff basically- would have ramifications for all of these companies. Its not like california only cares about infosys, the point is that infosys is producing a product offshore and CA gets taxes on two "project managers" who bring the goods in the state for use. Same would apply to Cisco/Sun etc. California is probably testing the waters with infosys because there is no price to pay if infosys gets angry and leaves the state.

To: Dinesh who wrote (59461)	3/20/2004 2:57:17 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

No insinuations re: your citizenship status, you just seemed to be unusually clueless about the admittedly inequitable system of taxation in the US. Rarely do you hear Americans wondering about why there are these state-to-state inequities (complaining, yes, wondering, no). "Opinions" re: offshoring are immaterial. Hundreds of companies do it. That doesn't make it an acceptable practice. I read today that the GWB campaign is SELLING Bush/Cheney paraphernalia that was made in Burma, a country sanctioned by Bush himself for having such inhumane working conditions. Bush's new "manufacturing czar" is himself a proponent of offshoring, having fired 80 US workers and opened his own factory in CHINA, employing 185. Hypocrisy is ALIVE AND WELL in the USA. What IS material is their collective negative-effect on workers in the US. We shall see just how significant that turns out to be in November. It's a big political issue for a good reason. There are lots of people who have a negative "opinion" of offshoring. I'm sure a lot of them work in the bellies of the beasts. BTW: it isn't the fault of foreign WORKERS that offshoring is hurting US workers. It's the fault of US Capitalism that is hurting US workers AND exploiting foreign labor at the same time.