Center for Freedom and Prosperity Brings Light to Obama's Dishonesty on Tax Policy
(Washington, D.C. Tuesday, July 21, 2009) The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) today released a new video debunking the outlandish and mendacious rhetoric that President Obama has used to attack low-tax jurisdictions. The video, entitled "President Obama's Dishonest Demagoguery on Tax Havens," examines the President's assertion that targeting so called "tax havens "will generate $100 billion in tax revenue each year by reducing illegal tax evasion. However, the video's narrator, Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute, points out that the White House now claims that the President's international tax plan will only generate $8.7 billion over a ten year period.
The video also reviews President Obama's accusations that the Ugland House building in the Cayman Islands is a vehicle for "tax scams" simply because thousands of businesses are registered at the same address. But as explained in the video, a company's legal address generally has no relation to where it is headquartered or where it conducts most of its operations. Indeed, the video shows a building in Delaware – smaller than Ugland House – that is legal home to more than 200,000 companies.
"The Center put together this video because tax competition is a serious subject deserving honest debate," said CF&P Foundation President Andrew F. Quinlan. " The fact that the President feels compelled to dissemble and exaggerate indicates that he recognizes that his attack on tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy is unjustified on a factual basis."
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation's new video, President Obama's Dishonest Demagoguery on Tax Havens, is now available