Hillary Clinton criticized the use of offshore tax havens on Monday, even though she and husband Bill have been paid millions of dollars in investment income, consulting fees and speech honoraria from companies doing business in the Cayman Islands.
“We’re now in a position, I think, where we can go after some of these schemes that you did read about, the kind of misclassifying of income, trying to make it look like it’s a capital gain, when it’s really ordinary income, going ahead and routing income through the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands or wherever,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes during the interview.
Clinton’s public stance on the issue — which she has discussed in the past — and the private actions of her family seems to tie together something Vice President Joe Biden said Monday about the Democratic presidential front-runner and her campaign opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Biden said that while Sanders “has credibility” when discussing income and wealth inequality in the U.S., “it’s relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.”
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“We’re now in a position, I think, where we can go after some of these schemes that you did read about, the kind of misclassifying of income, trying to make it look like it’s a capital gain, when it’s really ordinary income, going ahead and routing income through the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands or wherever,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes during the interview.
Clinton’s public stance on the issue — which she has discussed in the past — and the private actions of her family seems to tie together something Vice President Joe Biden said Monday about the Democratic presidential front-runner and her campaign opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Biden said that while Sanders “has credibility” when discussing income and wealth inequality in the U.S., “it’s relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/12/h...-have-made-her-family-millions/#ixzz3x60Ye770
