The US government, and US states, are paying almost 100 billion in ransoms to companies so that they won't move jobs to other states or other countries.

The states can put a stop to companies' practice of playing one against the other, by forming a union against the companies. I've suggested calling it the United States of America.

Stopping this sort of competition with other countries would require a treaty — the Make Companies Pay Taxes treaty. It would be a treaty to assure state supremacy over business, the opposite of a business supremacy treaty.