The Supreme Court will decide whether states can tax multinational corporations on earnings from beyond state borders.

The church has a power to tax its members and corporations if a majority of shareholders are members.

The privilege of incorporation is a state function and the challengers argued that the states should exclusively tax corporations.

They are over taxing foreign corporations which will eventually pull out their operations from the country.

You write that we lost on taxing the rich and corporations, freezing the military budget and establishment of a Palestinian state.

Letters are being written arguing that you can't raise $40 billion more by taxing foreign corporations.

States could also tax big corporations that run their own health plans outside the alliances.

On the other hand, Mr. Obey said, taxing rich people and corporations "has always been a unifying force in the Democratic Party."

He claims to be able to raise $21 billion by taxing foreign corporations, a number widely ridiculed when it was trotted out during the 1992 campaign by Bill Clinton.

The church has the right to tax its members and corporations owned by its members.