Yesterday, Congressional candidate and career politician Alan Nunnelee traveled to Washington, DC to advance his dangerous agenda which includes protecting tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. Nunnelee met with Americans For Tax Reform leadership and staff and has signed their so-called Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The pledge and the group support keeping tax breaks that benefit companies that ship American jobs overseas. Representative Childers supported a recent measure to close those tax loopholes that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas.

“As Alan Nunnelee flew up to Washington this week, Mississippi families can see that he was signing away their jobs overseas,” said Sam Hall with the Mississippi Democratic Party. “In this economy, families are rightly worried that their job could be the next one to be shipped overseas, yet that doesn’t stop Alan Nunnelee from rewarding companies that profit by outsourcing Mississippi jobs. Alan Nunnelee might think that standing up for Wall Street and Washington special interest by protecting tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas reflects Mississippi values, but the voters of Mississippi know better.”

Background

Nunnelee went to Washington yesterday and met with Grover Norquist and the staff of Americans for Tax Reform. [Nunnelee Twitter, 6/16/10]

Nunnelee has signed the Americans for Tax Reform’s “State Taxpayer Protection” Pledge. By signing the Pledge, Nunnelee swore to “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes”, including closing loopholes that ship jobs overseas. [ATR.org]

Childers supported a measure to close tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs. The House passed Senate amendments to H.R.4213 – The American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act. [HR 4213, Vote #324, 5/28/10]. This legislation Childers supported includes a provision to crack down on companies that take advantage of loopholes in the foreign income provisions of the tax code which makes it more profitable for them to outsource jobs. The bill would prevent corporations from using current U.S. foreign tax credit rules to subsidize their foreign activities.