People shop for the best deal. Companies look at countries and do the same. Give them a better deal by lower taxes and reducing regulation, and back they come. Raise taxes and regulation, and away they flee.
That has to be an oversimplification, else all the companies would have already moved.
Suspect that "I am used to things as they are" is a powerful incentive to keep business, not just citizens. (I say this as someone trying to move out of the UK because of the combination of Brexit and the Investigatory Powers Act: moving is extremely unpleasant).
Suspect that "I am used to things as they are" is a powerful incentive to keep business, not just citizens. (I say this as someone trying to move out of the UK because of the combination of Brexit and the Investigatory Powers Act: moving is extremely unpleasant).