Some move offshore to avoid taxes from the country that got them where they are...and some move offshore to exploit the labor that built them...and some move offshore for both.
Unlike you, I don't worship at their alter, I couldn't care less what they do.
"Some move offshore to avoid taxes from the country that got them where they are..."
Once again, you reveal your inability to understand multifaceted issues. Granted that many US based companies may be successful, due in part to their operating in the United States. But, the other side to that coin is that the United States is great in large part, due to those same corporations that have provided millions of jobs and built the infrastructure of this great nation.
It's a two-way street. But more and more, in recent years, the government is doing everything that it can to make that street a one-way street, with all money and operations controlled by Washington. Is it really any wonder that many US companies are choosing to dissolve that partnership, having discovered that their greedy partner can no longer be trusted?
Whether they are moving their operations offshore to obtain relief from our punitively high minimum wage requirements that make it hard to be competitive or they are just reincorporating offshore to obtain relief from our unreasonable and unique worldwide income tax that makes it hard to be competitive, it comes down to the fact that their partner has turned on them.
People and companies that grew up in the United States don't just pick up and move out of the land of milk and honey without a d@#n good reason. Hundreds of companies and hundreds of thousands of wealthy Americans are leaving every year. They aren't doing so on a whim. They are making a very tough choice. And, the reason that they are making that choice is that their government (their partner) has turned on them and is now demanding more and more out of the partnership and they now find that they have no other choice than to seek relief offshore.
It's sad that it has come to this. Those people and companies that are fleeing the United States are no more unpatriotic than those who fled England's repressive taxes and religious persecution hundreds of years ago. The only difference is that now it's happening it what used to be "The Land of Opportunity".
Maybe it's true that what goes around comes around.