I nominate this for the least surprising news of the year:
President Obama’s plan to crack down on what he called abuse of overseas tax loopholes was met Monday with quick and unusually sharp opposition from big business, threatening to produce the administration’s first major confrontation with a broad segment of corporate America.
The fiercely negative reaction to the plan, much of which requires congressional approval, contrasted strongly with the business community’s muted criticism, at most, of the president’s sweeping government intervention in the banking and automobile industries.
Imagine! The business community was OK with the government shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars into the business community, but is unhappy when the government wants to take away their PO boxes in the Cayman Islands. Who could have guessed?
