The oil companies are not the enemy. They make less money on the dollar than Walmart. Fact. According to what the IRS has printed, they pay a huge sum of taxes, look up how much total the feds take in per year, then look up how much the oil companies paid, then do the math of who pays a lot of the 2.1 trillion in taxes the feds take in each year. I fail to see how taxing them will help ME at the pump, but I can see how taxing them will keep government spending more money...c'mon, this ain't hard to grasp. You tax them more, you'll pay it at the pump. You try to control gas prices through legislation, there won't be no damn gas at all...and I don't blame them. Just read an article on one of the oil companies that just lost 4 billion all at once, they put in for a permit, bought equipment, and YEARS later the government tuned them down on drilling...ya it takes years to get a permit to drill oil with government in control. If anyone has any sense at all, you'll want government to stay off the backs of oil companies, they already tax them, they already regulate them, and they make it so they can't take the oil.
$2.7 Trillion In Spending Cuts And No New Taxes
Now there is why your in a depression.....2.7 trillion won't even pay the interest on the debt they rang up, they just can't quit spending, not to mention they have already spent 3.7 trillion for next years budget...
Math...what's math?
The country should have forced the Dems to pass a budget back in 2010, but not much we could do there, Dems had the house the sentate and the White house...we were overruled I guess.
Well, it's funny watching them point fingers at the "bad guys"...right now it's the oil companies. Was doctors a little bit ago to get health care passed. Who's next?
Far as tax cuts goes....what tax cuts? They were tapping me out, gave me back a few hundred bucks a year...hey, sounds like that 2.7 trillion deal, ..didn't amount to squat for me. I can't tell the difference between a tax cut and a tax hike I guess...
No matter who you think your enemy is, it's really the government, they are out of control and dividing us all.