[org.whodat]

Forgot to add, that I guess you meant to compare apples to oranges.

[an amused spectator]

Forgot to add, that I guess you meant to compare apples to oranges.

Do you know what I find odd?

If you Google "Exxon "40.6 billion"", you get 1,860 results, 98% of which are carping about Exxon's "outrageous" profits.

If you Google "Exxon "105.7 billion"", you get seven results, none of which are about Exxon's 2007 taxes. [I tried other varieties, like "105.6 billion" and "105 billion", pretty much the same results. I think each of those had ONE article that showed Exxon's 2007 taxes.]

The media and the government (but I repeat myself...) are hiding that information from us. I finally found it right on Exxon's website:

                           2007                    2006
Income taxes  	 	 29,864   	  	 27,902
Sales-based taxes 	 31,728 		 30,381
All other taxes		 44,091 		 42,393
Total taxes 	        105,683                 100,676
=======================================================
Net Income               40,610   	  	 39,500

Apples and oranges, indeed.

The Republicrats and the Demopubs appear to be doing quite well for themselves - at our expense...

[an amused spectator]

So let me do some numbers crunching from my post #48:

Exxon made $1.1 billion dollars more in 2007 than it did in 2006 - while the government made $5 billion more from Exxon in 2007 than it did in 2006.

Nice work, if you can get it!

And the New York Times & Wikipedia will cover for you, to boot! SWEET!