Want to know how Singapore and Hong Kong became the two financial centers of Asia? Low corporate taxes attracted rich corporations to them and with the rich corporations came their surplus capital, which was tucked away in local banks such as the OCBC Bank in Singapore and the Bank of China in Hong Kong, where it has been used to help finance the economic miracles of Singapore and Hong Kong. Charlie is in favor of using lower tax rates as a means to attract and keep more corporations in the United States.