But as soon as you become successful, we will punish you via a huge tax burden among other things.

We explicitly advocate success, yet implicitly advocate punishment of success.

It's not hard to imageine why so many companies often see relocation as a way to relieve their tax burden. It's nothing a normal citizen doesn't do.

Instead of focusing on punishing companies (who will eventually just up and leave altogether), we need to fix the core problem that is encouraging the behavior -- ie. the tax code.

You only pay on profit and it's clear up front when you start.

You can agree or disagree on it's efficacy on growing overall prosperity but to call it 'punishment' is strange.

An argument can be made that they earn more/have more profit, and therefore can afford more in taxes -- yet that is the very punishment I'm referring to. "You are more successful than I, therefore you owe a higher percentage of your income".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...

What? Who are you to decide how a company or individual spends their money?

Your tone implies you feel that just because some company or individual has more money than they can spend, means they should pay more in taxes?

Why do we charge people more just because they earned more? If you are a citizen, you should owe the same flat amount (percentage-wise).