Well Sandra I do not necessarly disagree with you but please confront reality with your wish list. Corporations were moving offshore as of 20 years ago so this is not a new phenomenah. The bottom line is as you said, most Americans are all overpaid and they are overpaid because of our cost of living. Corporate profits are the bottom line so essentially there is nothing wrong with the corporations doing what they are doing. Essentially it will lower the standard of living for the average American as well it should. However the costs of living are not going down nor will they. The result will be more Americans living a lower standard of living and more Americans relying on some sort of welfare in one form or another.

My post was to point out that having nice new railways from airports and finding busy work for Americans clearly is not the answer. The systemic issues are such that measures such as those are nothing but more waste at this time. Furthermore while the reasons you pointed out may indeed be the fundamental issue that drives the bottom line of the corporate ledger, the tax environment as it is clearly does not help. Indeed since things are so clearly overpriced, one would reason it may be more incumbent on the govt structure to INCENTIVIZE corps to stay via compensation of some sort.