It has been reported [source?] that the recent large increase in Customer Service jobs being done off-shore has been encouraged by tax policy. There has been some pushback when Middle Americans have to talk to someone named Bobby whose accent is so bad that he can't pronounce his own name (it is actually Jarwhal) because they expect to talk to a Real American on American products. For the case of Customer Service jobs not requiring PhD-level skills to merely read a checklist back to the customer, this has led to even-more unfortunate practices known as Rural-shoring, Ghetto-Shoring, or Goober-Shoring.
Rural-Shoring places jobs in Appalachia and other blighted areas. Ghetto-Shoring places jobs in the Inner City. Goober-shoring is for various pockets of high unemployment. While jobs in these categories stay in the US, the distances go counter to the Green philosophy of Local Is Better. A Shoring Tax that discourages these trends is put up for discussion here.
Tax Formula
Key
D is the distance from the company to the out-sourced job, miles
D1 is the distance from the geographical center of the U. S., miles
Tax 1[Distance Disincentive] = -.01*[D—30] when D is less than 30 miles, or
= +.01D when D is less that 1500 miles, or
= + .10[D1-1500] when D is greater than 1500 miles
Tax 2[Union Incentive] Multiply the Tax 1 figure by 2.0 when unions are forbidden in the country of the out-sourced jobs.
Tax 3[Elbonia Disincentive] Multiply the Tax 1 figure by 3.0 when the host country of the off-shore job holder harbors terrorists scheming against U. S. Citizens.
Total Tax = Tax 1 + Tax 2 + Tax 3
The net result is that the tax effect on off shoring will be neutral, with the taxes above counter-acting the present effect of perverse
incentives that encourage off-shoring, thereby saving jobs and promoting liberty. It also makes it less likely that present off-shorers will be able to self-fund a run for California political office.