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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
No, they aren't willing to pay their fair share. They have to be forced to pay it. I am not saying we have to go over 50%. I have given everyone here an example of where this system is off the tracks, and sucking the blood of the poor and the middle class. That's when the oil companies take 40cents a gallon n' pocket it each time people put gas in their tanks. I am not necessarily saying the price people pay is incredibly out of whack, but they are making 10% profit no matter if costs $2.50 a gallon, or $4.50 a gallon. There is no competition. Not a free market where other companies can cut that profit in half to try to compete. Just suck, suck, suck blood from the poor n' middle class to the tune of 10 bil a quarter per company(regularly.)
Not only that, but they get tax breaks while the rape is occuring. Then , you hear, well stockholders are making money...So, it's not just the oil companies doing good. That's just garbage. The average poor or middle class couple is getting they a-s-s eaten up by these oil companies. It's a flaw in our economic system, and it's been allowed to continue. That's the kind of devastation you and Zig don't understand, and never will. You believe it's a system where ya just work harder and harder and things will work themselves out. They don't. This needs correction. It's a protected monopoly, and it is the way this economic sytem would look all over the country if we didn't have a progressive tax system, and other controls in place.
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Oh cmon. Nobody is willing to freely pay taxes. Everyone thinks they are taxed too much.
And dammit... Oil companies are going to make huge profits because they are dealing with a commodity
WE are addicted to. Its just the infrastructure for oil use is so in place its very easy to use.
Just you wait.
If Congress passes that damn bill for tax credits dealing with alternative energy you will see an explosion of new ideas just like with PC's. There are people just waiting to jump on cleaner ways to produce enough energy to shove electrons through wires. We have so much excess wind energy in Texas they have to shut down the turbines because we dont have enough lines to transmit the energy. The new technology is ready to blossom. It needs a governmental shove to catalyze the swing.
People do not realize we are on the cusp of something very good. The best thing that could happen is what Coach Pants wanted. Oil skyrocketing to 200 a barrel. But OPEC understands that when gas went to 4+ bucks/gallon, people stopped consuming. They learned the upper limit at this time. And we see oil prices dropping back down to close to 100/barrel. I suspect production levels will aim to keep it about right there so people will keep on the crack oil addiction.