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Then watch as even more design work gets performed overseas. Face it, the US educates the world in math, engineering and science. The US babysits her young adults so that they graduate in five plus years with a relatively useless liberal arts, marketing, or a psychology degree.
With one motivation to move High Tech out of the US due to a lack of skilled workforce or at least one that will show up to work, we can add to the list, getting heavily fined for passing on TS technology.
Let's say that you were responsibile for running a company that exists to serve the data encryption community. Your primary objective is to stay solvent and keep the stock holders happy. To do that, your company is ready to come up with the best encryption algorithm the world has ever seen. Problem is, if developed by a US company then you won't be able to employ it anywhere but in approved countries. That means that those huge international conglomerate can't use your technology so tell your sales staff not to bother with trying to get those contracts. Nope, you have to work with those Mom & Pop's that don't do business with places like China. Like how many companies are there left that don't rely heavily on that Asian market?
Solution? Take your company's previous profits, invest them outside of the US in an overseas start-up. This saves you from having to pay taxes on the profits and on the dividends. This also is a great way to expatriate future profits because they are now made by a non-US company that doesn't have to pay US taxes or obey US regulation. By the way, your labor costs and your taxes are also extremely low. And if you are real smart, you will put this company in a country that is under a treaty with the US to receive protection from enemy nations so you have relative political stability. As an extra bonus you may even score some ImportExport Bank Loan guarentees so that you can loot the overseas company of any profits for your personal enjoyment and not have to worry about US overseers and regulators - or those pesky stockholder lawsuits.