But if countries don't have the courage, for fear of corporations pulling out or of fire sales of multinationals in their home countries, to stand up at some point--I do want to talk about double-dipping, and I will get to that--and say specifically that we have to make sure we maintain the integrity of our tax base, then ultimately the tax burden has to shift somewhere. We know there are services that taxpayers rely on.
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.