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June 8, 2012

Who Pays for Corruption in Afghanistan?

Amy Davidson, New Yorker

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If you can't even tax the true income of the expatriate multimillionaire American associates of a corrupt foreign regime, should the taxes of a secretary in America be paying for it?

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TAGGED: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, United States, Afghanistan

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