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Would large corporations leave the country entirely if we closed their tax loopholes?

I am someone who has always firmly believed in the idea that so many large corporations are fucked up for avoiding the amount of taxes that they do (admitted Bernie supporter, naturally). I was thinking about this and sort of realized that if Apple can use tax havens it could also just move its business there. So, what I'm asking is, would they? Or is there some reason tying them to the States that I'm missing.
gpt
Entirely? No. If they would leave entirely, they wouldn't earn any revenue in the US, and tax rates would have to be insanely high to make it worth avoiding entirely.

Apart from that, companies move the parts of their businesses that are easy to move. Quirks of the irish tax system for example allow tax avoidance because you can shift around intellectual property by basically buying it from yourself. But it's about intellectual property. It doesn't necessarily help apple to avoid the costs of their US server farms for example. And of course you still want server farms in the US because having them located somewhere in south america or whatever would probably mean a worse experience for US customers.

Not to mention other advantages you don't necessarily get all that easily elsewhere. For example, Apple can hire engineers, software developers, designers, etc. right from top US universities, offer them high slaries and the standard of living that comes with that in the US. And of course it's also a lot easier to be connected to the rest of the industry. Those are significant advantages that would take a lot to forego. 

So no, it's unlikely that a company like Apple would leave simply because the US offers a lot of advantages and it would be very costly to do so. In all likelyhood way more costly than just paying those taxes.