[Terpfen]

Corporations are in it for profit, not patriotism. When companies move offshore, it’s because the grass is greener on the other side. So we should make our grass greener.

Tax cuts, anyone?

[Soothesayer9]

“Tax cuts, anyone?”

And Obama said “Now is not the time for profits!”

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/now-is-not-the-time-for-profits/

[familyop]

"Corporations are in it for profit, not patriotism. When companies move offshore, it’s because the grass is greener on the other side. So we should make our grass greener.

Tax cuts, anyone?"

The needed tax cuts will come with new families in business starts after the defaults. The witches in government and academia are not my relatives. Those are the bosses' chicks. ;-)

Fellow Americans, those of you with ingenuity should make a hobby of making something useful. We'll begin production, when all of the anti-family, anti-American, corporate-government-academic clusters of trash have left our Nation.

[grey_whiskers]

I used to believe this argument too.

But there is more to a successful corporation than money:

skillful and/or educated workers

intellectual property rights

an impartial judiciary

an "honest enough" government that you don't have to bribe every official each step of the way to get anything done

proper infrastructure for manufacturing / transporting your product

a willing market to buy your product

access to the raw materials you need

commitment by the government not to favor its state-owned enterprises over yours

a physically safe environment (no wars or constant terrorist action)

non-confiscatory tax rates

The US has all but the last one in spades. But businesses take them for granted, failing to realize that most of the rest of the world (and indeed, almost all liberals) are openly hostile to the US. If our country is undermined to the point that it collapses, all of these these are lost, probably for a millenium or so.

Cheers!

[lentulusgracchus]

When companies move offshore, it’s because the grass is greener on the other side. So we should make our grass greener.

Yeah, sure.

Cut average compensation to 40 cents an hour.

Throw people out of their houses, make them live in squats and bathe in ditchwater. Let them drink from hoses.

Best of all, make them compete with prison labor gangs, just like America in the Good Old Days, when Mrs. Vanderbilt passed out sapphires and rubies in her dinner salads and soups, as party favors.

Milton Friedman said it, so I think there might be some merit to the idea, that without labor syndicalism in America, there would never have been either a mass middle class nor a consumer economy -- the literal envy of the human race.