By Bruce Krasting (Guest Post)
Faye Dunaway had a great line in the movie Chinatown. She said: “I don’t get tough. My lawyers do.”Some of the biggest titans of industry are currently in brawl over a ton of money. As is usual in America, when powerful forces get into a fight they turn to their lawyers (and lobbyists) to do the actual punching. While this may appear to be civil, it’s not. There’s too much at stake. The issue is the $1 trillion of earnings that corporate America has piled up outside of our borders. This money represents the profits from foreign activities that have not been…
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