> A third one would be to pass a law saying US companies and US subsidiaries need to repatriate 80% of foreign cash at 35% else the executives will be jailed.

> A third one would be to pass a law saying US companies and US subsidiaries need to repatriate 80% of foreign cash at 35% else the executives will be jailed. Whereupon the executives, and the money, and the company, decamp from the US permanently. > Guess how much cash will come back and at what rate. My guess? Zero. My guess for the number of companies that would leave the United States altogether? 100%.