[Alberta's Child]

Good point. If IBM moves their call centers overseas, is the U.S. going to assess a tariff on every toll-free call to a call center in India? If an insurance company moves their back office work overseas, is the U.S. going to assess a tariff on every internet data transfer?

[Myrddin]

If IBM moves their call centers overseas, is the U.S. going to assess a tariff on every toll-free call to a call center in India?

A tariff of 10 cents per minute on satellite serviced voice calls would immediately level the playing field. It would probably also offset any current subsidy of telecommunications that is coming from the U.S. taxpayer. Few of the rockets that put the satellites into orbit were privately financed by the companies that now exploit them.

[RussianConservative]

No, but tarrif assess on payroll to ship to India and yes on phone call why not? Charge for use assessed by phone compnay, government can too. Data transfer in packet, packet traceable, server to server connection traceable, why not?