Nevergolfpar
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This story is an excellent example of a corporation whipsawing a state using tactics that amount to legal blackmail. It exemplifies why we need one national policy which forbids this very sort of chicanery. We are one nation, one people, one economy with more uniting us that mere state lines on a map. It is well beyond time that we accepted this and made the necessary changes. Or we will forever be subject to corporate blackmail.
I do not view a corporation exercising its legal right to shop around for the best price (i.e. tax rates) as legal blackmail. After all, like it or not, this one nation, one people, one economy was founded under the principles of the free market and competition. The Federal Government has already done enough damage to the fragile ecosystem with which American businesses currently operate--why give them more power to pollute?