"No More Offshore. Startups Look to Spend and Hire in U.S. Due to Trump Tax Change."

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiring-us-workers-30f...

I don't understand how Trump is allowing anything with headline like this.

The BBB fixed some previously dire flaws in how tax law treated spending on software salaries in the US.

Create the problem. Fix the problem. Win!

The other side did have 4 years to fix it, though.

I do wonder if the last election would have gone differently if all the people directly and indirectly affected by that hadn't been.

> The other side did have 4 years to fix it, though.

They did try, incorporating some relief into a bill in 2021, however:

> In the House version of the Build Back Better Act passed in November 2021, the effective date for the amendment made by the TCJA to Section 174 was delayed until tax years beginning after December 31, 2025. While this specific provision of the bill enjoyed broad bipartisan support, comments made by Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) in late December indicating his opposition to the bill effectively stalled progress on the Build Back Better Act, making the path forward on legislation unclear.

-- https://www.bdo.com/insights/tax/significant-change-to-the-t...

That bill did narrowly survive, but only in a stripped-down form with that Section-174 provision removed to satisfy the Senate fence-sitters. Manchin later left the Democratic party.

At least we will be able to get jobs putting plastic forks in boxes now. Maybe we will be able to use those green GitHub tiles to negotiate better pay.

How is this Trump’s fault?

Actually it was Nixon who single-handedly pushed manufacturing to China, and Reagan who pushed harder.

Clinton just didn't do anything serious which could reverse this, and other Republican actions are what "allowed" further Chinese growth rates than that.

IOW almost anybody who had any influence was allowing prosperity to recede from our shores more so than Clinton.

not my downvote btw

As a person of grayscale the contrast is undeniable.

You Grayscale people have it easy, at least you have contrast. As a person of Transparency I end up overlooked everywhere all the time.

And as a white person it’s even more detestable still.

Since skin color somehow matters /s

Right, it was Trump who allowed IT services to be outsourced for the last two decades.

I mean... yeah? Tim Cook and Trump were documented buddies in the first term of his presidency. No over-the-table attacks over offshored manufacturing or outsourced services. They probably celebrated the demise of Intel over a filet mignon and Coca-Cola while discussing the merits of lower manufacturing margins.

The idea that now Trump (or anyone, for that matter) wants to bail-out American chipmaking is laughable. Intel bet wrong, and now all of America has to satisfy itself with being critically reliant on Taiwan for our highest-margin products. You don't have to blame Trump, but there's no reason any corrective action shouldn't have been done during the first term. We either let Intel drown or send them a government-issued life raft - we can't teach them to swim from underwater.