Why? Because they're MAKING MONEY here. Think about - even at 35% tax rates, that's 65% of the profit they keep.

Why is there more growth offshore? Well, to be honest, the markets are still emerging offshore.

Do you really think Ford would completely leave the country so long as they can still make so much as a dollar on a car?

The fact is, right now, the GOP is pushing for lower corporate taxes when the corporations are earning record profits and, in some very public cases, paying NO taxes at all. Not exactly a formula for leaving.

You think that if the oil companies have to give back a couple billion in TAXPAYER SUBSIDIES that they will ignore the other $40B *per quarter* that they made?