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...havens have been around almost as long as taxes. They have mushroomed in size and importance since the 1970s, when large corporations and international banks started developing sophisticated offshore financial markets out of the reach of national regulators. The International Monetary Fund estimates that as much as $7 trillion in financial assets of various kinds are now held offshore. Concerns about money laundering and revelations about the role of tax havens in corporate scandals like Parmalat and Enron - both of which used a complex web of holding companies in places such as the Cayman Islands and, yes, Delaware - are turning...
This shift could start any day. Clearly, by April investors will realize what a sweet deal dividends are. Roughly $3.7 trillion of the S&P 500's $10.3 trillion market value is held by individuals in taxable accounts. These shareholders will reap tax savings of $13.6 billion this year. Some, and maybe even much, of that windfall will be reinvested in dividend-paying stocks. Meanwhile, the sheer size of the savings--it equals the total amount of child-credit checks the government issued last summer to stimulate the economy--will call attention to dividends...
...buying drugs from Canada and Mexico. Once the drug companies see their revenue fall they'll start lowering prices. The politicians will not move since they have 100% health-care coverage thanks to the U.S. taxpayer. It is up to the individual to act. Mr. Bush just vaporized $3 trillion in surplus to settle a personal score with Saddam and make his friends rich. Could have used the money for prescriptions. Stan Gable Massachusetts...
...naive. The administration has racked up three tax cuts in three years, fundamentally altering the government’s long-term fiscal outlook in the process. According to a recent Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center report, the tax cuts have helped to convert a 10 year surplus of $1.3 trillion into a 10 year deficit of $4.5 trillion. This fiscal deterioration has tremendously important implications for our government’s ability to preserve Social Security, Medicare and other critical programs for future generations...
...trillion Official value of the United Kingdom, as priced by British statisticians...