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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan called Cayman Islands 'the place where you hide your money'
Paul Ryan called Cayman Islands 'the place where you hide your money'
by Jed Lewison
Via BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski, Paul Ryan talks about the Cayman Islands as a tax shelter in a 2010 speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
So according to Paul Ryan:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/24/1135802/-Paul-Ryan-called-Cayman-Islands-the-place-where-you-hide-your-money
by Jed Lewison
Via BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski, Paul Ryan talks about the Cayman Islands as a tax shelter in a 2010 speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
Let's make sure that when businesses invest and build and grow here in America, that's the smart business thing to do. We don't want to have a situation where we are penalizing businesses for keeping their money and their capital and their headquarters and their manufacturing facilities here in America. So, then, rather than having Ireland and the Cayman Islands be the haven for capital formationthe place you hide your moneywhy don't we make it America?
Why don't we make it here, in this country, so that we can be the leaders of this? I have no doubt in my mind that if we do this, not only can we raise the revenue we currently raise for the federal government, we can get growth back on.
So according to Paul Ryan:
- .People like Mitt Romney use the Cayman Islands to hide their money.
- The reason they hide their money their is to avoid American tax laws.
- The solution is to make American tax laws just like the Cayman Islands so guys like Mitt Romney won't want to bail on America.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/24/1135802/-Paul-Ryan-called-Cayman-Islands-the-place-where-you-hide-your-money
Damn, even Mitt's running mate is dragging him down while he's falling.
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Paul Ryan called Cayman Islands 'the place where you hide your money' (Original Post)
ProSense
Sep 2012
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n2doc
(47,953 posts)1. Or...we could eliminate the tax loopholes that allow such havens
Would be simpler.
highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)2. K&R
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)3. Mitt Romney: "Gulp".
Say - I wonder if Ryan forgot about Mitt's little tax hideaways abroad?
I bet he did
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Drip. Drip.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)5. He forgot
Which party ticket he is on. He forgets a lot of things, doesn't he.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)6. Well here is one area Ryan gets sub 3s on regularly...
He can get a crowd of seniors to boo him in under 3 hours. He can cause a campaign to tank in under 3 hours. And he can tell 7 major lies in under three hours. No wonder Ryan made politics his career instead of running marathons.