their senators to bring the jobs home. all of our jobs are going overseas and we need to bring them back to the united states so that our grandchildren and their children will have jobs in the future instead of sending them overseas. those doing well in america ought to do right by america. walking out of here when we didn t need to was a crime. our government is allowing them to go away. they re paying them to go away. those workers simply want congress to reward companies that hire americans. republicans keep claiming they want to improve the economy, but tonight, they re getting ready to kill this jobs bill. let s turn to the sponsor of the bill, bring jobs home act, michigan senator debbie stabenow. senator, good to have you with us here tonight. thanks for joining us. and thanks for doing this. i think this is really what is infuriating a lot of americans as you saw in the last segment. this seems like a pretty reasonable proposal to create
show. that was president obama this afternoon talking about getting americans back to work. this week, senate democrats are offering a plan to do just that. right now, companies get rewarded for sending jobs over seas. the cost of moving your company overseas is considered a business expense. it s tax deductible. if you lay off americans, hell, you get a tax break. to bring jobs home act would change all of that. it would end the tax break for moving jobs overseas. instead, you get a 20% tax credit for bringing them back to america. right now, we re actually paying companies to lay off americans and leave the united states. and look at what it costs this country. over the past decade, the biggest companies have cut their work forces by almost three billion workers, but they have hired 2.4 million overseas. laid off americans are rallying to change the tax law. workers from washington to georgia to maine are asking their senators to bring the jobs home.
show. that was president obama this afternoon talking about getting americans back to work. this week, senate democrats are offering a plan to do just that. right now, companies get rewarded for sending jobs over seas. the cost of moving your company overseas is considered a business expense. it s tax deductible. if you lay off americans, hell, you get a tax break. to bring jobs home act would change all of that. it would end the tax break for moving jobs overseas. instead, you get a 20% tax credit for bringing them back to america. right now, we re actually paying companies to lay off americans and leave the united states. and look at what it costs this country. over the past decade, the biggest companies have cut their work forces by almost three billion workers, but they have hired 2.4 million overseas. laid off americans are rallying to change the tax law. workers from washington to georgia to maine are asking their senators to bring the jobs home.