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Can Corporations Be Patriots?

Congress adjourned for the summer with tax reform still caught in political gridlock. Since then, President Obama has seized on a tax proposal once buried in his budget to attack a practice multi-national companies use to avoid paying taxes in the US; it’s called “corporate inversion.”

By Warren Olney • Aug 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Congress adjourned for the summer with tax reform still caught in political gridlock. Since then, President Obama has seized on a tax proposal once buried in his budget to attack a practice multi-national companies use to avoid paying taxes in the US; it’s called “corporate inversion.”

Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Benjamin Gottlieb
Reporter, Fill-in Host
Claire Martin
Producer, To the Point/Which Way LA?
Richard Rubin
tax policy reporter for the Wall Street Journal
Robert Reich
professor of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley, former labor secretary under Bill Clinton
James Taranto
Wall Street Journal

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Can Corporations Be Patriots?

Congress adjourned for the summer with tax reform still caught in political gridlock. Since then, President Obama has seized on a tax proposal once buried in his budget to attack a practice multi-national companies use to avoid paying taxes in the US; it’s called “corporate inversion.”

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To the Point

Can Corporations Be Patriots?

Congress adjourned for the summer with tax reform still caught in political gridlock. Since then, President Obama has seized on a tax proposal once buried in his budget to attack a practice multi-national companies use to avoid paying taxes in the US; it’s called “corporate inversion.”

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