Giuliani: Ease Burdens on Business
Published: 11/24/07, 5:25 PM EDT
By HOLLY RAMER
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani told voters worried about job losses and outsourcing that burdensome taxes and regulations are to blame rather than corporate greed.

Speaking at a VFW hall, the former New York mayor disagreed with a woman who said she blames greedy CEOs for the outsourcing of jobs to other countries. Businesses have a right to make a profit, he said.

"I think outsourcing is a function of being anticompetitive," he said.

The solution, he said, is lifting some regulations on businesses and lowering the corporate tax rate.

"If we right now lowered the corporate tax from 35 to 28 percent you'd stop a lot of outsourcing like that," he said. "All of sudden the incentive to do business in this country would go up."

Another voter told Giuliani that Laconia once was home to a thriving knitting machine industry back when Manchester, N.H., was a major player in the textile industry, but lamented that all those jobs now are in China.

Again Giuliani defended businesses, saying the focus shouldn't be on limiting the flow of cheaper products from overseas into the United States, but rather increasing American exports to make up the difference.

"If we're talking about pure economics, I believe we shouldn't worry about buying from overseas. What we should worry about is how much we're selling," he said.

For example, a huge opportunity exists for American companies to help China and India become energy independent, he said.

"China's gonna need windmills. China's gonna need better use of water power. China's gonna need to use solar power better than it does," he said.

"It makes up for a lot of stuff you can buy from them," he said. "It makes up for a lot of sweaters - one big wind mill, a lot of sweaters."

Saturday was the first day of Giuliani's two-day bus trip through New Hampshire, where he is second place in the polls behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and about even with Arizona Sen. John McCain.

The whole story If we right now lowered the corporate tax from 35 to 28 percent EASE THE BURDENS??
ON BUSINESS????
Do you believe this is the way to take this country??

Tom Tancredo.

You know whats scarry??????

















What if the choice we have to make,
is between Clinton and Guiliani???


wheres my Canadian Passport????

aint that the truth!

luckily the election is far away and theres enough time for them to screw up. I really don't like any of them. I think Mitt Romney is a John McCain republican which is a democrat I haven't heard too much from Fred Thompson but I kinda like Tom Tancredo although he is a single platform candidate, what he says is how I feel! his answer to criminal immigration is right on. but I don't think anyone running is gonna make a difference in this country greed and money in politics is killing us. the two parties don't care about doing whats right for the country, but are concerned with keeping the other party from having control. can we banish the hard core conservatives and left wing nut jobs.....PLEASE

The Primaries are about 40 days away.
Thats all!!

Then we are down to two!

I'll be damned, you're right! they are closer than I thought. Tancredo don't have a chance but I'm voting for him anyway! so I'll see what choice I don't have after the primary.

I'll preferred to choice the devil we know than the angel we have not heard of.Bravo Guil...

I think he meant, (a little sarcastic humor, and not intended in any way as an insult or personal attack)

Its better to keep getting screwed by the same 6 inches,
than experiment with 12!!!

You know what's not scary? Voting for Ron Paul.

Sorry,
I dont see Paul!!

i like ron paul but i also like john edwards..my primary is jan 8 !!

Thats close..

NC is May 6.

Ron Paul...no one else...

like Dean go Lou Dobbs

Saw now where Thompson's attacking Guliani, saying New York isn't a model for the rest of the country. Ole Fred's on the right track(never thought I'd say that), but if Fred really wants to get people thinking, why doesn't he bring up Rudy's rather abysmal record as mayor pre-9/11? Hell, Rudy's record POST 9/11 isn't that hot.

Gotta admit, the arguing between candidates in the primaries is FAR more interesting--and funnier-- than it is in the general election.

So, wonder what the Canadians would think of someone trying to leave the US as a political objector to come to Canada ...

Isnt that the same as wanting to leave Mexico to come to the US because you dont want to be screwed?

Fanta I realize that in the socialist nirvana that you advocate profit is a dirty word, but profit is what built this country. Business has but one objective, that is to make a profit.

If business is continually taxes to the max, it will go where taxes are lower and more favorable to making a profit. That is a concept the socialistic left cannot seem to grasp. They think business is a well to be pumped dry to fund all manner of entitlement programs. Then once the well is dry, government can take over business and run it more efficiently than private enterprise. They think the only reason socialism hasn't worked in the past is because they haven't found the right people to run it but Hillary, or Edwards or Obama can change that.

Not when that ave is closed off to them with penalties forge!!

Reestablish the protective tariffs that used to make it more competitive for Americans to do business in America! They wont leave if they have to pay the additional cost, it wouldnt make sense, if when they left they had to pay the protective tariffs to sell their products here!

We are the largest consumer market in the world! Lifting the protective tariffs back in the late 70's and 80's is what started our jobs being outsourced in the first place!

It became cheaper for them to seek the cheap labor and lax labor laws of other countries!

Thats why they were called Prtective Tariffs! They protected Americas businesses and American jobs!

and if you hadnt lifted them, no one would have bought your products and you would not have had any people working anyway!

So, you had to lift them ... Social economics