among other aspects of considering competitive-ness, they should investigate the companies that are getting tax breaks and then look at the executive compensation of each of those companies.

The target should be if a company is getting low or no tax benefit and the executives are collecting multi million compensation packages a red flag should go up. One could interpret this reality as the tax relief allows for easier accomplishment of financial goal resulting in the executives getting mult million dollar compensation. In a manner of speaking the federal government, via we the people are in essence subsidizing their accomplishment.

Yes the tax incentives are intended to allow companies certain benefits in return for some action on their part. The investigation should also take into account the number of jobs created by these companies. The objective should be to disqualify ANY company getting a tax break that is creating jobs outside the USA. Why? Because like the government is subsidizing the executives getting multi million dollar compensation packages, they are also being subsidized for creating jobs outside the USA.

This of course like all other actions to make the tax fair or competitive involves threatening the company lobbyists and special interest groups and their contributions to the politicians who allow these inequities and subsidies to continue. Hence the politicians continuing to benefit from the tax breaks allowed and we should consider the tax breaks do in fact thus subsidize the benefit to the politicians.

As a result such an investigation will never ever come to pass.

The politicians are on the sunny side of all actions taken and or allowed for their benefit, while we the people get the short end of the stick. Especially those who are not getting the "hand outs" which are of course protecting the politicians voting blocks.

Nothing about the above is fair.

The nice thing about this subject is it is not partisan because whether you are an R or a D you are getting screwed over as a result.

The inequitable taxation situation needs a revolution. It is the poster child for what is wrong with the government of the USA.

btk