Tax breaks and WTO

[Marta Russell]

This may be the one and only progressive thing the WTO has
done.
Of course Spotlight woud complain.

"The United States has appealed a ruling by the World Trade
Organization
that condemed the $2.5 billion in tax breaks for US.
companies with
overseas subsidiaries as being illegal subsidies.  According
to the UPI,
if the United States loses the appeal, "one outcome could be
the loss of
a naton's control over its own domestic tax statutes."
(Spotlight 12-99)
--
Marta Russell