as that money isn t brought back to the u.s. so at ge, $108 billion. also pfizer $73 billion kept overseas. microsoft, let s give a shout-out, $61 billion are kept overseas. a lot of health and tech companies do this. essentially they assign their patents and intellectual property rights, their foreign subsidiaries. they don t bring the money back to the u.s. they don t have to pay taxes on that money. and joint committees of taxation show if we tax their foreign earnings fully, we would generate billions of dollars. and if you think what we re dealing with $85 billion. but i think the solution is you can t tax these corporations to oblivion. if you tax them too much they won t invest that much on infrastructure, labor, that kind of thing. it s a whole lot of cash, though. i am totally what s the one thing we need to know about our money? americans are also stashing some cash, too. a new study says americans had nearly $200 billion stocked away in 529 college savings pl