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John Kerry has a name for companies and business executives who move jobs overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes - "Benedict Arnolds." The Massachusetts Democrat, who is close to locking up his party's presidential nomination, vows that, if elected, he will come down hard on these traitors to working America.
Meanwhile, Kerry finds himself in the awkward situation of having to explain why he has accepted money - lots of it - from some of the same companies and executives he denounces as Benedict Arnolds on the campaign trail. The Washington Post reported this week: "Executives and employees at such companies have contributed more than $140,000 to Kerry's presidential campaign, a review of his donor records show. Additionally, two of Kerry's biggest fundraisers, who have together raised more than $400,000 for the candidate, are top executives at investment firms that helped set up companies in the world's best-known offshore tax havens, federal records show."
Kerry said he had no idea, and the two Kerry fundraisers said they did not consider themselves to be Benedict Arnolds. They've been around long enough to know better than to take campaign rhetoric seriously. So their feelings are not hurt.
Aides insist that the donations won't deter Kerry from cracking down on these corporate traitors. "Sen. Kerry has made it crystal clear that he's going to close these (tax) loopholes, forever," Chad Clanton, a Kerry spokesman told the Post. "Nothing will stop him. Period."
Now, as Kerry was saying about these Benedict Arnolds . . .