“France’s new Socialist leader President Francois Hollande plans to slap a tax of 75 percent on all income in excess of a million euros ($1.24 million), and territories with lower rates are hoping for a cash exodus. The focus has been on France’s neighbor Britain, whose Prime Minister David Cameron irked Hollande by boasting that London would ‘roll out the red carpet’ to French entrepreneurs seeking shelter for their income. But a new offer came Wednesday from a more unlikely quarter: Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/09/mississippi-looks-to-lure-french-tax-dodgers/
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