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Senator Durbin to Walgreens: Renouncing Your American Corporate Citizenship Hard to Defend

Asks if ‘the corner of happy and healthy’ is in the Swiss Alps

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 22, 2014.  In a letter to the CEO of Deerfield, Illinois-based Walgreens, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today expressed his strong opposition to the speculation that Walgreens will buy Swiss-based retailer and wholesaler Alliance Boots and use a strategy called “inversion,” to move the company’s headquarters overseas, but only on paper, in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes. 

“Customers have…

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