re: #11 Barflytom

Quote: “the report showed that institutional investors owned 73 percent of the top 1,000 companies in 2009”

So why are you assuming that institutional investors represent money from individuals invested with those institutions?

Go to the bottom of the chart, and look at the countries which tax foreign income of non-resident citizens - the last column on the right. The only countries in that rather dubious club are the USA and Eritrea.

Who gives a shit about non-resident citizens? Your claim was “As you ought to know, the US is one of very few countries to tax citizens on their worldwide incomes”. If you mean to say ‘non-resident citizens’, then sorry you fucked up, but that’s not really my problem is it?