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Cattledog

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Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:39 PM Dec 2017

If the Tax Overhaul Smells Fishy, Its Probably the Samoan Tuna Plant.

By Richard Rubin
November 28, 2017
WASHINGTON—While partisans squabble over whether the Republican tax overhaul in Congress benefits the middle class or the wealthy, part of the proposed legislation is going over swimmingly in Pago Pago.

The House plan, which would reinstate a tax break for a tuna cannery in American Samoa’s capital city, could provide about $10 million a year to StarKist Co., the territory’s largest private employer.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-the-tax-overhaul-smells-fishy-its-probably-the-samoan-tuna-plant-1511813469?mod=e2fb


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