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Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem

December 11, 2014 at 7:02 am EST By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

Businessweek reports that Jeb Bush’s recent business ventures “reveal that he shares a number of liabilities with the last nominee, Mitt Romney, whose career in private equity proved so politically damaging that it sunk his candidacy.”

“Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 27 list Bush as chairman and manager of a new offshore private equity fund, BH Global Aviation, which raised $61 million in September, largely from foreign ­investors. In November the fund ­incorporated in the United Kingdom and Wales­—a ­structure, several independent finance lawyers say, that operates like a tax haven by allowing overseas investors to avoid U.S. taxes and regulations.”

[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]Interestingly, many establishment Republicans just don’t understand why this is a problem. [/speech_bubble]

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