
“If you are out to improve the world, you are going to wind up exporting your own ideas about world improvement. The Obama administration, well, it thinks the wealthy need to be taxed more — everywhere. And what Clinton meant by ‘contribute to growth’ was revealing. She listed contributing to building schools and hospitals rather than domestic business investment, which is the conventional meaning of contributing to growth. This is something that I hadn’t realized was a part of the goals of U.S. foreign policy: higher taxes around the world on the wealthy.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-everywhere-2012-9
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