The Week contest — Tax inversion

This week's question: Walgreens has bowed to political pressure and abandoned plans to dodge U.S. corporate taxes by relocating its headquarters overseas — a practice known as "tax inversion." What more patriotic-sounding alternative to tax inversion could executives use to explain why they're moving companies abroad?

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: American exemptualism

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Joe Irby, Little Rock, Ark.

SECOND PLACE: Operation enduring profits

Alan Choate, Kingman, Ariz.

THIRD PLACE: Self-deportation

Erin Davenport, Davidson, N.C.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Uncle Scram

Chris Doran, New Cumberland, Pa.

Foreign aid

Elizabeth Jones, Long Beach, Calif.

Helping shareholders help America

Mike Driscoll, Leicester, N.C.

Over the hedge funding

Stuart Fischman, Lake Forest, Calif.

Polluting elsewhere, for a cleaner America

Madeleine Begun Kane, New York City

Spreading the wealth

Mike Peterson, Des Moines, Iowa

Red, White, and Flew

Mark McCutchan, Athens, Ohio

Yankee Skadoodle

Mary Helm, Camp Hill, Pa.

Flag waiving

Jere Buckley, Webster, N.H.

American ingenuity

Darrin Cross, Troutdale, Ore.