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Ernest Istook: “The fact that there may be corporate expatriates in these countries does not mean you should disqualify everybody that…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2004
The fact that there may be corporate expatriates in these countries does not mean you should disqualify everybody that is in those countries. If you want to get at corporate expatriates, go after them, but do not say that because, maybe, let us pick a number, maybe it is as high as 5 percent of the companies that are chartered in one of these nations is a corporate expatriate you are disqualifying 100 percent. I do not know what those ratios are, but I do know the vast majority of companies in these nations are not corporate expatriates. The fact that the list that you have of corporate expatriates say these are their chosen destinations does not mean that everybody in those countries are corporate expatriates.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of disqualifying companies based on the presence of corporate expatriates.

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