[IAmEveryone]

You're attributing this to malice, or even conspiracy. But it's just basic game theory: because international cooperation has not kept up with the mobility of capital flows, national governments succumb to the mechanics of a Prisoners' Dilemma, or race-to-the-bottom, or tax competition, or whatever you want to call it.

I'm pointing this out because when people draw the conclusion that "all politicians are corrupt" they tend to weaken the very institutions that could solve these and many other problems.

Of course there's also the fascinating tendency of the US public to empathise with corporations. That's why they can't even solve this entirely obvious dynamic within their own borders, and happily pay Amazon's taxes in an entirely zero-sum competition for HQ2.