Comment by izacus

> The obvious loss is to government revenue, but the more subtle and still very real loss is the diversion of high-powered talent from what could have been gains in efficiency and productivity to focus instead on corporate reorganizations and tax evasion games.

Looking at all the corpo legal/HR departments really has to make you think - those are people that are paid to aggresively look for legal loopholes, to defeat the spirit of laws and to make sure that the corporation always has the advantage against the society and workforce they exist nearby. There's decades upon decades of man hours being put into chipping away the effectiveness of tax, workplace and other laws and finding loopholes to make them ineffective. We've been at war and we never even noticed.