An article by Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center - "the most important think tank you've never heard of." [1] If you're interested in the background of this in

An article by Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center - "the most important think tank you've never heard of." [1] If you're interested in the background of this interesting organization, there's some funding information at [2]. It's maybe not that surprising that a board member of an economics outreach effort heavily funded by Koch Industries would argue for the freedom of the very rich to "to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal shell corporations," especially considering that the Kochs were exposed doing just this by a previous round of ICIJ published leaks. [3] But maybe it's worth asking why such a reasonable practice, totally within the law, would be so secret in the first place that it takes leaks like these to make it known. 1: http://web.archive.org/web/20070824203256/http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/index.php?id=5895 http://web.archive.org/web/20070824203256/http://gazette.gmu... 2: http://www.desmogblog.com/mercatus-center http://www.desmogblog.com/mercatus-center 3: https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-reveals-luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empire https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-revea...