Leave it to the NYT to shill for more taxes and more government. Of course the article doesn't mention one single factual dollar figure about this inversion, it only decries the horror. They estimate major inversions cost the treasury $2 billion a year. Wowsa, that's a rounding error in a $4 trillion annual budget.

I've encountered many deals where small foreign companies were looking at doing business in the US but when we explained to them federal and state corporate taxation they were discouraged from setting up shop here. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of similar stories each year. Instead of reducing the US corporate tax burden (amongst the highest in the world) and encouraging companies to set up shop here, the US tax code discourages such investment and growth.