We stand with Senator Elizabeth Warren in opposing the nomination of Antonio Weiss, an investment banker with deep connections to Wall Street, to the position of Treasury Undersecretary. A Wall Street insider should not be regulating Wall Street — we ask that you take Senator Warren’s lead and reject Weiss’s nomination.
Why is this important?
President Obama has nominated Antonio Weiss, a Wall Street investment banker, to be the next Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance. Senator Warren opposes his nomination — and we agree with her that we shouldn’t have Wall Street bankers overseeing Treasury’s work supervising banks and protecting consumers.
Weiss advised Burger King’s acquisition of Canadian chain Tim Horton’s, a “tax inversion” deal that lets corporations avoid paying their share of taxes by paying another country’s tax rate. This summer President Obama called tax inversions an “unpatriotic tax loophole.”
Read more here: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/14/7220067/antonio-weiss-elizabeth-warren
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