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On the recordApril 15, 2008
And the way this was discovered was on a worker who was laid off with 10,000 employees, went to go collect unemployment insurance and was told no, you don't have the money for that because you didn't pay insurance. He said no, I work for an American company, and then discovered, in fact, he didn't work for an American company. KBR was a company set up in the Cayman Islands for the purpose of avoiding paying their fair share of taxes, and it is right here on April 15, when Americans are facing bigger tax bills, higher costs for health care, higher costs for education, higher costs for gasoline, that in fact those companies that are servicing in Iraq pay their fair share and not use the tax code to avoid their responsibility.
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel
Illinois

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Addressing tax avoidance by companies servicing in Iraq during a speech on tax day.

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