Robert Portman
The Public Record
Unless Congress acts, I believe that many more innovative American companies will be lost.
Cut the highest-in-the-world U.S. corporate tax rate to the mid-20s; bring America's international tax system in line with the rest of the industrialized world.
You showed the board how this acquisition would play out at three tax rates, as I see it here.
I do not question what you are saying at all about the business reasons to have the combination.
The final question I have is just briefly with regard to this inter-company lending.
America's businesses and workers are the best in the world, and we are not asking for a tax handout. We are asking for a level playing field.
I think it is fair to say the tax savings were an important driver of the deal.





