It's no secret that the foreign policy of the United States tends to reflect the world views of the occupant of the White House.
Sure, there used to be some homage paid to the
notion that "politics stops at the water's edge," but that hasn't really
been true for generations. Particularly if you are out to improve the
world, you are going to wind up exporting your own ideas about world
improvement.
Free-market types will
urge freer markets, even when these take the form of the kind of
corrupt privatization that gave rise to Russia's oligarchs. And the
Obama administration, well, it thinks the wealthy need to be taxed more —
everywhere.
"One of the issues
that I have been preaching about around the world is collecting taxes in
an equitable manner — especially from the elites in every country,"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in her speech at the Clinton Global Initiative Monday.
Although Clinton noted
that she is "out of politics" domestically, the audience was already
chuckling at her clear reference to the debate over tax policy in the
presidential contest.
"It is a fact that the
elites in every country are making money. There are rich people
everywhere, and yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own
countries," Clinton said.
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