07/09/2013
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"We have had enough of proposals to cut benefits, raise the age, privatize the program."
"But the record also shows that when deciding where to locate the headquarters of the combined firm, tax considerations ruled out the United States."
"We learned that in those two transactions alone, Valeant determined it could shave more than $3 billion off the target company's tax bills."
"This is how he made his reputation in the U.S. Senate, and many historians say it was his work on this Committee that vaulted him into consideration for the Vice Presidency and ultimately the Presiden..."