Ballmer threatens to pull out... of the USA.

[complacent]

/. article linky.

So basically, M$ has purposely moved $16B to offshore areas in order to reduce their US tax bill by "billions" and are threatening to move the bulk of their operations off of US territory in protest of the current administrations' proposed tax policies regarding businesses.

That's just great. I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this. Anyone else have an opinion they care to share?

<--- Has zero economic studies under his belt, pardon the n00b.

[ElZorro]

Great, let them do it. Then put a tariff on any imported operating systems costing more than $0.01 and get the money back. Pass a law that says that non-US sourced operating systems can't be installed on US Govt computers. Watch the State of Washington collapse as aircraft manufacturing is down and the 41k employees of MS in WA (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/insi ... mspx#EADAE) disappear.

Any company that does this BS should be punished. They want the benefits of being in the US without the costs. Has a MS employee ever collected unemployement? Social Security? Has MS benefited from US laws, regulations, etc?

[snaab]

<--- Has zero economic studies under his belt, pardon the n00b.

Same here, but when things like this pop up, you know something's not right about the situation.

[Sabre]

Agreed with Elzorro and Snaab.... Levy a tax on them! I just wish I did understand more of it.

[Mr Kleen]

so, M$ has made their loot and now that it's time to pay the tab for living in this great country they're skipping out on the tab. classy...

[snaab]

Corporate equivalent of dining and dashing?

[chicken n waffles]