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[WT³íÆò] Chasing out the multinationals
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  • By Scott S. Powell(columnist)

    The convergence of technology, ease of digital collaboration and ready access to abundant overseas engineering talent allow multinational corporations to move research and development, product development, manufacturing and overall management to many places in the world. Increasingly, multinational executives are having difficulty in justifying operating major portions of their business and being incorporated in the United States. A shocking thought for sure, but it’s the new reality.

    After Japan, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world, and there is seemingly no willingness on the part of Washington to bring those rates down to make us more competitive. In fact, recently the Obama administration proposed taxing the foreign profits of U.S.-based multinationals even when those profits were not repatriated, but backed away under pressure from executives who threatened to move offshore. Obama aides acknowledge that the administration has set aside the idea for now but plans to revisit it in a broader tax overhaul next year.

    This ambiguity and the threat of new taxes from Washington, such as “cap-and-trade,” have already prompted 11 major American companies to move offshore in the past year. They have all taken or completed steps to change their domicile of incorporation, with Switzerland and Ireland as the most popular relocation destinations.

    But it is not just taxation that is chasing corporations out of America. Another top consideration is access to talent.

    Since the Department of Education was formed in 1979, the kindergarten through 12th grade public education system has deteriorated. The United States now spends more per capita on public education than any other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development country, but its students test near the bottom.

    With the scarcity of technical talent in the U.S. resulting from failing schools, many corporations try to recruit foreign students.

    Another major concern for American multinational executives is the increasing political risk in the United States. They now worry about the high cost of uncertainty associated with excessive government activism, radical change and a hostile culture.

    A culture that turns a blind eye to government failure, but is quick and unrelenting to blame society’s ills on business will naturally and subliminally embrace socialist solutions. The problem is that when one intervention fails, the government attempts to fix its errors with yet more interventions. The result is “creeping socialism” and a compounding of waste and inefficiency.

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