? Why would a company pay tens of millions to the government when they can either report that same money as profit or invest it back into their company? A comp

? Why would a company pay tens of millions to the government when they can either report that same money as profit or invest it back into their company? A company like Twitter would not lose talent by having their headquarters in one of the suburbs in the peninsula (palo alto, redwood city, mountain view). Google, Facebook, Oracle would all be precedence for that case being that they're all located in the peninsula and not San Francisco.