Charles Schumer wants to crack down on American companies outsourcing call centers to Asia.
Or does he?
His great solution is to charge a quarter per call fee for customer service or technical support calls that are initiated in the U.S. but are routed out.
That’s like clearing out your flooded basement with a teaspoon.
The reason these call centers are outsourced is because the labor is far cheaper. I don’t know what the fee would have to be in order to bring the effective labor cost of outsourcing call centers up to parity with keeping them in the U.S., but it would have to be way more than a quarter per call. More fundamental than that, I wouldn’t hassle around with fees if I were Schumer, just mandate that corporate call centers for American companies sit inside the United States, and on top of that, disallow the use of immigrant visas for those positions, so that the call centers actually employ high wage high benefit and potentially unionized native born white Americans.
Outsourcing like this has been going on for quite a few years, yet only now is someone getting around to doing something about it. So what gives? Answer: I think it’s a Democrat attempt to keep white working class voters in swing states that were crucial to Obama’s victory two years ago from swinging their votes too much. Just like Schlafly thinks they’ll use the Mexican trucks issue, while nobody will pick up on their hypocrisy of doing nothing about the treaty which forces us to take in Mexican trucks (NAFTA) nor their hypocrisy of wanting us to accept unlimited immigration of Mexican people. Schumer himself is up for re-election this year.
