That's the reason why corporations are leaving. And they are going to continue to leave unless we bring our corporate tax rates in line with other countries, meaning lower them significantly.
Yes, and this will be a conservative vs. radical argument as always, with conservatives who want to take it in small increments, and radicals who want to slash it all and implement a 9-9-9 plan. Of course we have very few conservatives in our countries; in truth, we have radical liberals who want to slash welfare and corporate taxes haphazardly, and other radical liberals who want to raise taxes and boost welfare haphazardly.
Today, radical liberals have the public ear: the Democrats are in favor now, but the Republican opposition holds a large clout of power, and third-parties who gain the most attention are largely those wishing for immediate, sweeping upheavals of law to create a fantastic new nation. In all of these are fad policies falling under different ideals, but all holding the same liberal drive of making changes, now, immediately, to a direct end goal which we wish to see tomorrow in full.
This is not the way of the conservative. The way of the conservative is to look before you leap--and to not leap at all if there is a ladder. We need in our political system a new generation of great conservatives whose aims are focused on correcting the deficiencies of our system, and whose methods are taken in close but metered steps so as to implement changes in a timely manner. Each year, we should carefully examine our system of laws, of taxes, of entitlements, so that we might detangle some small part of it and pass new law to excise that small complexity for something simpler, less costly, and more effective. Year after year, the effects of these changes should add up, so that in a decade our system is much better and more cleanly operating, so that the poor are less impoverished, so that our laws are less draconian, so that our social services are better and our taxes are lower because they are applied more efficiently.
Instead, year after year, we bicker and rage, we demand immense and startling action, we propose whole systems not as plan but as policy. We propose an end result as a bill to pass, rather than as the final result of a few short years of a senator's term passing smaller measures and adjusting each in accordance with the results of the former, until he has at last with the whole of Congress implemented the whole of their great plan by small degrees. Accordingly, we see the risks are high in passing a sweeping measure as whole, rather than by parts; and the political opponents of those senators rage to the public on those risks, and frighten the public into moving power one way or the other, and by this oscillation prevent any real work from coming about.
There will come an age when America either collapses or finds itself tired of running radicals against radicals, with the alternative of up-and-coming radicals.
