Many have been a part of the American economy for over a century. Now they can't wait another twenty-eight months or so till the mid-terms?
Why don't these "captains of industry and commerce" dig their damn heels in and actively campaign to replace the socialists and commies and Obama's thugs in the House and particularly the Senate. OPENLY contribute brains, power, influence and money to elect conservatives and tea partiers...and to throw the anti-business bums OUT of both houses!
No...instead they're muttering to themselves as they start folding their tents to leave......dragging their tails behind them. They'd rather run than fight.
These yellow-bellied cowards will be gone instead of remaining and helping folks like us fight back to save our country and jobs.
While I'm pro-business, of course, I've yet to see Big Manufacturing, Big Financial, Big Retail, etc. organize themselves into a "save America" juggernaut....as they could if they wanted to.
To the contrary, I watch various business groups working actively to torpedo our nation....one example being the Chamber of Commerce....which should more precisely be re-named the "Anti-American-Worker Chamber of Horrors".
Another case in point, the corrupt Big Unions....who are still supporting and protecting Obama while he's driving industry out of the U.S. causing the demise of the jobs of millions of their own unionized dues payers. Go figure.
And Big Media...who is going to buy advertising in your rags, on TV and on radio when businesses collapse as they're doing every day now. You don't seem to care, do you.
And screw you, Walgreens. Instead of expending energy on moaning about taxes and daily threats of deserting this country why not decide on a prescription to SAVE it? And then actively DO something about it!
Why are WE, the peasants, supposed to fight this marxist regime while Big Everything placidly sits by on its collective fannies, and while it continues heavy donations to the DemoRat Socialist Party, all the time shaking their heads about how they may have to move their corporations off-shore and how awful it all is and how nothing can be done about it and how their wives will hate leaving their gated-community bridge clubs, and.......
Leni
The IRS/Lois Lerner scheme represents merely a tip of the iceberg in the mammoth government intimidation scheme. The current government regime is punishing dissent harshly and using multiple government agencies to inflict maximum incursion and extortion.
Free market is free market.
“Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.” Walter Wriston
Why don't these "captains of industry and commerce" dig their damn heels in and actively campaign to replace the socialists and commies and Obama's thugs in the House and particularly the Senate. OPENLY contribute brains, power, influence and money to elect conservatives and tea partiers...and to throw the anti-business bums OUT of both houses!
How to launch such a campaign? Socialists get free advertising from the mass media, so any money paid into such a campaign is diluted immediately. There is a lot more of Them then there are of You (I have a different dog in this fight) so the probabilities do not look good for such a bloodless coup to succeed. Foreign company purchases are more of a Sure Thing, and can reap benefits in months and a ROI of two or three years; fighting for sensible taxation would take quite a few years, if not decades.
Look up "Prisoner's dilemma" for a discussion of the game theory behind the decision that business would make.
What the socialists don't want the low-information voters to figure out: high corporate profits go right to the price we all pay for goods and services. The higher the taxes, the higher the prices we all pay. Have you considered that "taxes" are tax-deductable? "They" would like you to believe that taxes on corportions are "free money", to be spent on the people. If the taxes were never collected from the corporations, the people would have more of it because less tax has to be built into the price one pays at the cash register...and the people would probably have to pay higher taxes directly to make the whole thing revenue-neutral. It's a shell game, and very few people can follow the ball that well. The alternative view has "bad optics" for the Socialists, because the Lo-fo voter would see just what is happeneing. The Magician doesn't want you to see how the ball moves from the cup to his hand...
There is another consideration against fighting the good fight: business would have to assume that any activist campaign would be made on a level playing field. Not so. Never mind the MSN's large heavy thumb on the scales of public opinion, consider the amount of fraud that would be brought to bear on the altercation. ACORN was just the tip of the iceberg.
Sir or Madame, what you call "lily-livered" is in fact recognition of hard reality. We have a hypocrite for a pResident, who thinks that cherry-picking law is "great for mine but not for thine," who holds his breath until he gets want he wants (and not what's good for the entire country), who cries "Racist!" at the drop of a hat but loves playing the race card when it suits him.
Leaving, in part, the United States (at least for tax purposes) is indeed a sane, rational reaction to the insanity that has invaded Washington DC. It's called "getting out from under" while you can. Not hope that in November and in January 2017 things will get "better". Ever hear of "coppering your bets?" That's what tax inversion is, an insurance bet against things getting worse. And it's working. Consider how little actual money is involved (for now) in tax inversion, and how loudly the stuck pigs Secretary Lew and Chief Executive BObama are squealing. If they could figure a way to get into the game...
Answer: Eric Holder
Of course you are 100% on-t@rget beyond a doubt... they are driven by threat of loss of profit so they cave in to DOJ, EPA, DOE, DHS... etc. ... another symptom of a society in decline. sigh
Many have decided to simply move the whole kit-and-kaboodle off-shore.