claim: says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: aug 28, 2015 ... how do you think he's doing? ... in his speech, he made a lot of promises about what he would do as president of the united states. seven years later, we looked at how .... obama has been unsuccessful in his efforts to close tax loopholes for companies to move jobs to other countries. obama did attempt to ...
evidence_2: sanders' tax reform plan accomplishes that goal by closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy and well connected, making the tax code more progressive, and .... in addition to busting up the big trusts of his time, he fought for the creation of a progressive estate tax to reduce the enormous concentration of wealth that existed ...
evidence_3: aug 27, 2014 ... some of america's top corporations are parking profits overseas and ducking hundreds of billions in taxes. ... if it's legal," he declared this summer. "it's wrong." these inverted companies, he said, "don't want to give up . . . all the advantages of operating in the united states. they just don't want to pay for it.".
evidence_4: aug 28, 2008 ... how else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies, but not one penny of tax relief to more than 100 ... it's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to ...
evidence_5: jun 26, 2017 ... president donald trump has promised the largest tax cut in history, but for scores of the biggest u.s. corporations, it might be just a tax nick. ... likewise, a permanent, but shallow, cut wouldn't send most multinationals on hiring or investing sprees, he said -- “though there's always someone at the margin” ...