- Companies that outsourced at least 5,348 Missouri jobs contributed $2,532,814 to Blunt’s campaigns and PACs. Many of the jobs for which was data were available went to Mexico, China, and India.
- Blunt voted against studying the effects of outsourcing and voted repeatedly to protect companies that moved overseas in order to avoid paying taxes in the United States.
- Blunt has also voted against denying tax benefits to companies that moved their money overseas, effectively incentiv
izing offshoring . By doing so, Blunt also voted against protecting workers who were impacted because of corporate inversion. - Blunt voted eight times for free-trade agreements with Chile, Colombi
a , Panama, Peru, Singapore, South Korea and Central American countries. - In 2000, Blunt voted to normalize trade relations with China, which cost Missouri 44,200 jobs between 2001 and 2003. Between 2000 and 2006, the U.S.-China trade deficit displaced 1.8 million U.S. jobs.
- In 2005, Blunt voted against providing trade adjustment assistance-equivalent aid to unemployed veteran workers returning from Iraq whose jobs were outsourced.
- In 2011, Blunt voted for an amendment to limit trade adjustment assistance to only workers laid off because of a shift of production to or increased imports from countries with free-trade agreements with the U.S.
Published: Nov 2, 2016