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Howard Lutnick: “Ireland has a 60 billion dollar surplus.”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Published | Video Starts at 26:34

You know what's a flag of Liberia? And you're like, like what? Because you pay no tax. So all those ships are paying no tax. It's just a tax scam. Ireland has a 60 billion dollar surplus. Ireland? Why? Because our companies drop their IP there, you know, their patents and their IP and they pay Ireland the money tax scam. How about we end the tax scam? (26:34–26:40)

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