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Ernest Istook: Just because people that may do a corporate inversion, may choose to go to these countries does not mean that everybody…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2004
Just because people that may do a corporate inversion, may choose to go to these countries does not mean that everybody that is in there is. If you live in a country or in a city where there is a lot of crime, it does not mean that you are a criminal. You do not say we will go out and penalize everybody in that community because some among them are people that we do not like. We should not do that to any other country on the Earth.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma

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Discussing corporate inversions and their implications during a committee debate.

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