Ms Lagarde, now the IMF managing director, has said publicly she cares more about village schoolchildren in Niger than Athenians " who are trying to escape tax all the time."
Second, the Treasury Department took action to crack down on big corporations that change their address overseas after acquiring smaller companies, in order to reduce their tax bill here at home.
Well, the vice president of the United States at that time, a man by the name of Spiro Agnew, was being investigated by the government for tax evasion and money laundering.