The United States is the richest nation in the world. However, when we look at the world, the amount of business and population outside the United States is far larger than the amount of business that can be conducted exclusively within the borders of the United States. This signifies that for the largest and most aggressive companies in this nation, that they aren’t really interested in just being a great national company, but they desire to do business all over the world, as a multinational corporation, with their headquarters and origin residing in the United States. So then, it is very important for these multinational companies that as many nations as possible are open for their business, and even more importantly, once open for business that none of these countries have the temerity to preclude or to eliminate such business continuing, which is one of the main reasons why the United States devotes so much time and money to its armed forces, because quite frankly, they aren’t really there to make the world safer, but rather our military forces are there to make sure that other nations that are not currently fully aligned with the United States are obedient to its corporate dictates, because apparently what is good for these multinational corporations, is in theory, good for the United States.
There is no doubt that trade is extremely important for nations for their continued resiliency and power. Not to mention that once a domestic market has essentially been conquered, there isn’t going to be a whole lot of room to impressively increase revenues and profits, when domestically that nation has already been pretty much saturated with such, and because stockholders and the executive offices of corporations typically have the same desire, which is ever more profit and ever more revenue, then corporations are pretty much mandated to make this happen by doing business overseas, which should not only keep the growth curve looking quite healthy, but also will require years upon years, or many decades, before the entire world can be completely saturated with their respective business footprint, thus signifying that the outlook of future projections of profit and revenue will appear to be robustly strong.
So too, businesses are not interested in laws being contemplated that would take away any of their avenues for revenue and profit, which signifies that to preclude this very thing, necessitates an understanding at the highest levels of governance that a government that governs best, is that government that works hand-in-glove with the biggest and most important domestic corporations for the collective perceived benefit of nation and corporations -- though truth be told, it is the population in whole that ends up suffering whenever the governance of this nation turns it back from doing something constructive about pollution, environmental destruction, special tax benefits and favoritism earmarked for corporations, and the government backstopping of certain multinational corporations that have come upon rough times at the overall expense of all those that lack that same sort of power and connections.
To be a multinational corporation is to be in the position of power that, at its best, for those multinational corporations signifies that the laws and legislation so written are in conformance with the multinational corporation's desires, and that business overseas is faithfully supported by the big stick that America is wont to use, as influenced by those same multinational corporations.