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Actually reconmike, those corporate giveaways don't even attempt to reward corporations for employing US citizens. If that were the case, I would be supportive of at least some of them.
One could (and many people do) argue that tax subsidies to coporations and wealthy individuals automatically results in domestic job stability and creation. If that were the driving force, however, such subsidies would hinge on corporations actually expanding domestically--but they don't.
It would be a simple process to state, for example and by no means exhaustive, that for every job or business created domestically, X amount of tax credit accrues. That isn't what is going on. Instead we say, here's X amount of money--do what you want with it (and I don't have a problem with people doing what they want with their money, but this is tax money--our money) and we hope you create a job with it. There isn't anything preventing that same corporation from using our tax money to create a tech service in India, relocate the production from here to there, provide the service to US citizens, and reap the profit (tax free now, of course).
From that perspective we seem to be doing everything bass-ackward. We give exhorbitant amounts of money to the rich, hope they will create domestic jobs, bitch when they relocate abroad, and complain about the lazy people on the "dole" who were kicked to the streets when their corporation left stateside.
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