Agreed, and the jobs being outsourced are the high paying jobs which create the most tax revenue and would ultimately pay down the debt. These jobs being outsourced both reduces tax revenue and adds unemployed individuals drawing $$ and funds to get retrained to another career.

In the short term for some companies it may be good. However, in the long term it's a poor solution that ultimately drives customers away. I have been affiliated with organizations that did a lot of outsourcing to everywhere from India to Ireland. Even outsourcing to companies in the US. The problem with outsourcing isn't that it's always bad, but companies want to make it a windfall in savings for the organization.

In reality, unless you have a process that is stagnant and rarely changes, it just doesn't work. (Vendors don't understand what to do when the scenario isn't in their check list. More than 1 company has done this to me personally. HP, Amazon, Citi, are a few) The other misconception is that because it's outsourced the organization doesn't need to provide oversight. After all, "that's their job" More than 1 major company found out that is so extraordinarily wrong. (think of 2 brothers and mom tells #1 to take out the garbage, he talks #2 into doing it for $1. #2 says he'll do it and goes outside. the next evening #1 is in trouble because #2 didn't take out the garbage and #2 has already spent the $ on lollypops.).

So, actually the organization who outsources must provide more, not less oversight, and many times covertly to ensure no manipulation of results is occurring by the vendor. (Oh yes, we processed all those requests. Unannounced site visit resulted in discovering vendor was 4 months behind.) Oversight is not just the process you are outsourcing, but the vendor's IT, hiring practices, etc. Since any of these are vulnerabilities into potential avenues to your, it infrastructure (hint Target Stores data breach), business practices, trade secrets, etc.

Where onshore outsourcing is ok is it provides experience to individuals who need an avenue into a career that normally requires experience to get hired, but the experience is limited. Or for students who need a summer job between classes. Or the mother who's children have grown-up and moved away looking for something to occupy a few hours a day.

Offshore outsourcing, is just a way for an org to try to stay profitable, and it may be good for foreign economies, but in the long run it slowly damages ours by moving the higher salaried jobs to countries where they don't need to pay as much. (and the resulting product is many times inferior in design & result) For foreign environments it is a disaster because the foreign governments aren't prepared for the waste and pollution resulting from new outsourced industries (and the vendors themselves are driven by greed or need) and don't manage wastes as they should.

Taxes should be charged the same for organizations, the idea that a organization can have less of a tax burden by outsourcing is a issue that congress needs to resolve. We need progress in this. (oh sorry, pro vs con. The opposite of progress is congress.)

Trickle down economics? Funny, that was 80's bunk.