[Oldpuppymax]

“And to me this is equivalent to going to your ATM and finding out that your bank that you and your family have banked with for 125 years has, without even talking to you, transferred all your funds to another company.”

The idiot speaking here has no idea that he has inadvertently identified a key problem: they are not a bank and their assets are not “your funds”. I suspect that Ohio having treated NCR as though their earnings belonged to the state is among the reasons they chose to relocate.

You are exactly right. Destroy the tax base with unions, regulations and increased taxes and then whine, moan and complain when that base decides to leave. Of course, soon companies will either not be permitted to relocate from “blue” states, or they will be taxed just as though they had remained.

[Richard Kimball]

Bingo. I was going to post similar thoughts. The government views private business as ATMs and private business profits as simply government money that hasn't been taxed yet.

Story: Guy walks up to an ATM and is trying to figure out how to work it. A college student comes up and says, "I can help you." The guy says, "Thanks. I want to make a deposit." The college student says, "Oh, I've never done that."

[andy58-in-nh]

Relocation is a significant "pre-John Galt" option available to businesses whose owners are tired of being milked like an old Holstein. Some states (New York, for example) have already taken to penalizing companies for moving to more friendly business climes, either by punitive taxation or threat of lawsuit.

In the meantime, the same liberal-dominated states refuse to control their spending, raising taxes in discriminatory fashion on achievers and risk-takers, many of whom will in time refuse to do either, any more.