Reasons to Weep

Reasons to Weep

“You know what makes me want to cry? I think whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?” — Heather Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, and C.E.O. of the Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical giant Mylar, who is “reluctantly” acquiring Abbott Laboratories in order to re-incorporate in the Netherlands where it will pay an eventual tax rate in the “high teens,” rather than the 25 percent it pays now.