Tithes Concealed
In Europe its Lichtenstein. Germany claims it looses €30 billion in tax revenue, every year. That's from Day Zero to the day Saddam was "found" in a spider hole. That's the "value" of Yahoo!, according to MicroSoft.
And that's just Lichtenstein. There's Luxembourg, Belgium and Austria, which oppose any EU legislation that would cause their private banks to provide information to other tax authorities on the savings of nonresident investors.
Add to that the "off-shore" banking entities in Switzerland, Andorra, and the Cayman Islands. They account for one third of the wealth of the world's "high net-worth individuals" -- nearly $6 trillion out of $17.5 trillion -- that's the Iraq War, from Day Zero to today. Repeated twice, for a total of three Iraq Wars, every year.
So if the Obama campaign staff throws the "mildly complicated personal tax return issue" onto the political and policy fires of the next month, don't be surprised if the Clinton campaign staff don't find a way to re-write their offering from a zero-sum morality play to a policy issue with legs. Legs that reach past Obama and well into the RNC's diseased November electoral heart and into policy in the first 100 days.
