Status Updates From Open: The Progressive Case ...

"When it comes to the distribution of the corporate tax base, however, US multinational companies are extremely tax- sensitive. Over half of all foreign profits are earned in just seven tax havens with effective tax rates under 5  percent: the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, and Singapore. These countries have a combined population smaller than that of California. "

"One study calculates the collective impact of past economic sanctions to have been more deadly than the entire history of weapons of mass destruction. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 125,000 people; chemical weapons have killed a similar number. Yet the United Nations found that Iraqi sanctions alone killed at least 239,000 children under the age of five. "