Congress Gives U.K. Rum Manufacturer a $2.7 Billion U.S. Taxpayer Funded Gift

From: New Patriot Journal

Congress Gives U.K. Rum Manufacturer a $2.7 Billion U.S. Taxpayer Funded Gift
http://www.newpatriotjournal.com/Articles/CONGRESS_GIVES_U_K_RUM_MAKER_A_2_7_BILLION_U_S_TAX_PAYER_GIFT


Wrapped inside the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) lies a provision that gives a Britishrum-making corporation, Diageo, a tax break of $2.7 billion to move their facilities from PuertoRico (where they resided for 30 years) to the U.S. Virgin Islands – and Puerto Rican politiciansand activists are up in arms, finding Congress unwilling to make the tax laws comparable in bothplaces, and even unwilling to be transparent about which politicians in Congress, if any, mayhave benefitted from the unusual tax break. . . .