Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
Are these companies justified in fleeing the U.S. to maximize profits? Or is there something fundamentally unfair -- nay, Un-American, about corporate America shedding its fair share while the average working stiff is asked to pay more? Is it time to chuck the tax code and start over? What reforms do you suggest?

In a rare moment of complete corporate candor way back in the Depression era, Alfred P. Sloan, then the CEO of General Motors said, "The business of business is business." If we want corporations to behave responsibly, we will have to create conditions which make it extremely difficult for them to do anything else. We may even have to tell them exactly what they must do. This does not mean that corporate executives are bad people, it just means that they are corporate people who will do what is to the advantage of their corporation.

Follow the money, carry a big stick and a big flashlight, and be prepared to use them.

BTW in his private life, Sloan became quite the philanthropist, and to this day the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants for original research, primarily in the STEM fields.
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