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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (647040)	10/18/2004 12:48:33 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

Looky here...Governor Calderon’s Washington lobbying team has been enhanced by one of the Republican Party’s top tax and trade lobbyists. M.B. Oglesby has become Vice Chairman of Black, Kelly, Scruggs and Healy, the firmed headed by Calderon’s chief Washington lobbyist, Charles Black. Puerto Rico as a tax haven should not be overlooked. Special concessions called tax holidays were carved out by PR legislators permitting U.S. and foreign and businesses to reap large tax benefits. Puerto Rico is a U.S. controlled tax haven, having all the benefits of any State in the Union, but with an internal tax system all its own. One tax haven writer has said… “There is no place in the territorial limits of the United States that provides such an advantageous base for exporters.”