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A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Recent stories from Alex Leary
Obama targets Cayman 'tax scam'A building in the Cayman Islands houses thousands of corporations. Sen. Barack Obama calls it "the biggest tax scam on record." But until legislation currently proposed by Obama and others becomes law, it isn't.
Alex Leary is a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times.
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