A corporation is not a patriotic entity. The corporation is dedicated to making money FOR THE STOCKHOLDERS.

If the costs of being based in America are too high, they can always shut down their plants in America (which is a tax write-off), hire new employees at a fraction of our salaries, in a tax haven, and move their entire operations off shore.
They don't HAVE to pay taxes if their headquarters is based in a foreign country. They will have, as Neal says, jumped the economic Berlin Wall and taken their prosperity elsewhere.
A smart leader would make it attractive for companies to be based in the United States. If the cost of being based here are too high, then, of course, they will go elsewhere.
What about the jobs? Plenty of jobs...in other countries.
If you tax something, it becomes scarcer. If you encourage something, it grows.
Which is Obama doing?

Sure. Tax the heck out of 'em.

Who PAYS those taxes, Wayne? WE DO! Microsoft and all other corporations just increase the price of their goods to cover the extra expense caused by the taxes.

How much of our money do we have to GIVE to this government??? "Solutions" like yours only make the problem WORSE!

I called Microsoft to complain about all this off-shoring and I was assured by Mujibar in Bangalore that I was over reacting.

How correct you are Club-a Liberal. I told people yes you will make history, because this is the first time that you will vote and it will also be your last. Cause you want a king. So many sheeple. When they come looking for a piece of bread from me I'll have some-thing for them.

To Jake(Outsource all the jobs overseas and produce all products overseas. In the end the market will collapse because of massive unemployment in one of the world’s largest market. This is an untenable situation for the US economy, which has become a just a service based economy that shuffles the ever weakening dollar overseas.)

The UPSIDE- Imagine our carbon footprint for doing nothing!! Win!

Comrade Obama and his band of idiots aren't even hiding the fact that they're trying to turn us into the USSR...with the exception of trying to take over the world. And the sheeple are loving every minute of it.

I'm sure Ballmer, along with all of the Wall St. elites, were writing checks and eating dinners at big fundraising events for the Kenyan Ba$tard (by definition). How do they feel now? These are the ones I want to suffer from OBozo's policies the most. You see those Lexuses and Mercedes with the Obama sticker on their bumper, they are the ones I want to suffer, solely for the absolutely stupidity of not realizing that they are the ones who are going to take up the a$$ more than anyone else if Hussein's policies go into effect. They thought they were so cool being part of history. I can't wait for the policies to nail them.

That said, I agree with the point of "But what does Steven Ballmer know compare to a govt official". Maybe we should require that Ballmer along with all CEO's be required to get a license first before he can be CEO!!!

Bill Gates (and his lawyer father of the same name) are raging liberals and< I am sure, strongly supported BHO in the last (and perhaps the last) election.

Hows this "Hope and Change" working out for you, Bill?

It blows me away to see how Obama and his jackbooted thugs are copying Mussolini's playbook for turning America into a fascist state. One of Mussolini's more famous quotes goes: "Everything within the State, Nothing without the State and Nothing against the State." Benito was referring to Italian corporations that had out of country operations. Consolidating the Italian corporations under his direction within the borders of Italy was a big factor in rebuilding Italy's economy in the 30s. The scary thing about it was the horrific loss of freedom of the Italian people. But, Hey, maybe Atlas has been shrugging for a while.

I would like some Democrat, aka, Socialist, to explain to me why, if socialism is such a great idea, you have to wall people in for it to work? I mean, I always hear about how if we just adapted socialism everyone would be better off. How government would take care of the poor and the needy, provide us all with “fair” housing and food and medicine. But anytime socialist get control of government, one of the first things they have to do is put up walls to keep people fleeing their wonderful utopia.

Let me approach this another way, if socialism is so wonderful, why do you have to change the meaning of the constitution in order to implement it in this country? I mean, there is nothing in the constitution that prohibits a state from being a socialist state. As long as a State doesn’t violate the constitution, it is free to organize itself any way it wants, and that includes being a socialist state.

Our forefathers understood that one size does not fit all, that one absolute form of government was always going to be doomed to failure, whether it was a socialist government, a democracy, a totalitarian regime or a monarchy, that sooner or later, any single form of government would stagnate and fail.

So what they came up with, in their infinite wisdom, was a system whereby governments (States) could compete, without resorting to force of arms. Thus the United STATES of America was born. And how our country should operate is right there in the name, a Unity of States. States that agreed to basic set of rules (the constitution) and to support a federal government that was charged with provided the States with a common defense and would handle treaty and trade as a single entity with other countries. But other than the powers expressly given to the federal government by the States agreeing to participate, all other powers were suppose to be left to the State.

It was suppose to be up to the States to decide what form of government they wanted to have as long as they worked within the framework of the constitution. If a State wants to be socialist, there is nothing in the constitution that prohibits it. So, that brings us back to the original question, why the walls? All you have to do is look at the more socialist states in this country to find they answer, because without the walls, when socialism gets too burdensome on it’s citizens, and it always does, if they can, the citizens will flee.

So please, tell me, what is so wonderful about a system of government that can only survive by building walls to keep people in?

This is a little off subject but I'm sure someone can enlighten me.Question: If all the manufacturing jobs and hi-tech jobs are outsourced out of the country then how is the USA the largest comsumer of oil and natural resources in the world? We don't make anything anymore so WTF are we using so much oil and energy on? It can't all be fuel for cars and home airconditioning?

Simple solution for a socialist Democrat government. The Government will levy additional punitive taxes against Microsoft or any other large company who moves employees, jobs or factories overseas to reduce their expenses due to the tax code. IF they can fonfiscate executive pay bonuses, they can do this.

This is all part of the NWO plan. Right now it would make more sense than ever to lower taxes and shrink government, but that is not what they are doing. They are purposely increasing the size of government and shrinking the size of the private sector. Furthermore the fed is purposely trying to drive large corporations out of the country because soon this country will be dead in the water. Those corporations are also in on this scheme. They needed an excuse like this to move out of the country cause they know all too well the NWO agenda. Once you see some of the giants in this country leave and the commercial market literally fall apart I am sure the skeptics will finally realize that the people that have talked about the New World Order for so long were correct. It is so funny how this whole thing has played out. Alot of people don't realize that this a carefully thought out scheme. It cannot be done quickly or else everything will fail. It must be done slowly and then all at once while the country is weak the final pushes are made and it is done. Well people we are here. These are the final pushes. We are not pushing back and they know now that they have won. How does that make you feel?