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Govt. may bill you for BP crimes
YouTube ^ | June 2010 | RidleyReport

Posted on 06/30/2010 7:55:54 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271

The government may raise taxes even higher (move to socialism) so BP can pay for their accidental oil spill.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: ajntsa; bp; governmentcontrol; governmenttakeover; libertarian; notthisagain; oil; oilspill; ronpaul; statesrights; taxes; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; whoisjohngalt

1 posted on 06/30/2010 7:56:00 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: citizenredstater9271

Did not expect BP to do anything other than pass the cost of the clean up on to the tax payer anyway.


2 posted on 06/30/2010 8:03:44 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: citizenredstater9271

Taxes, taxes, taxes. :)


3 posted on 06/30/2010 8:10:12 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: org.whodat

My theory: the government wants to tax us and give our money to the big companies, because they can end up taxing the big companies more than us and then put us on welfare. So both big companies AND the working people become dependent on the gov. for everything. That’s pure socialism plain and simple.


4 posted on 06/30/2010 8:11:40 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: Tzimisce

Boortz pounds this every day; Businesses don’t pay taxes, their customers do.


5 posted on 06/30/2010 8:11:56 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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To: citizenredstater9271

Consumers and taxpayers will pay EVERY CENT of this. I would think this would be obvious to all.


6 posted on 06/30/2010 8:13:04 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: citizenredstater9271

Don’t know about this, but any notion that BP would be able to pay for all losses suffered by everyone involved was nonsense, and nothing but Obama, government nonsense from the start, once the scale of the problem was realized after a week or two.


7 posted on 06/30/2010 8:13:51 PM PDT by Will88
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To: mazda77
Boortz pounds this every day; Businesses don’t pay taxes, their customers do.

I do as well, many people here cannot grasp the simple fact that a business views taxes as a cost of doing business. It is passed on to the consumer. I just cannot understand the complete failure of anyone to understand that simple fact.

8 posted on 06/30/2010 8:16:54 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: citizenredstater9271

Neo fascism = supra-national corporations + internationalist totalitarian elitist interlopers

“Too big to fail” = neo-speak


9 posted on 06/30/2010 8:18:09 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: org.whodat
It is passed on to the consumer.

And if the consumer doesn't buy it, then the business eats it!

10 posted on 06/30/2010 8:28:44 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Soothesayer9

Wrong, if the consumer doesn’t buy it it is written off their taxes as a loss.


11 posted on 06/30/2010 8:36:15 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: PGalt

LOL!


12 posted on 06/30/2010 8:37:20 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: Soothesayer9

Would you say it is quite possible that the gov. may bail out BP if they can’t afford to pay for the cleanup? I hear environ-mentals run this administration and may pressure the gov. to do just that.


13 posted on 06/30/2010 9:05:36 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: org.whodat

“I do as well, many people here cannot grasp the simple fact that a business views taxes as a cost of doing business. It is passed on to the consumer. I just cannot understand the complete failure of anyone to understand that simple fact.”

I would add that businesses don’t REALLY care if taxes go up, as long as they go up across the board equally within their industry - however, in the last 40 years, offshoring has changed this situation to some degree, except in businesses where this can’t be done.


14 posted on 06/30/2010 9:22:02 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: citizenredstater9271
BP "crimes?"

Has anyone at BP been arrested and formally charged with a crime?

Has anyone at BP been convicted by a Court of Law of any crimes after a fair trial?

15 posted on 06/30/2010 9:27:52 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: DTogo

Ask Ridley why he titled his video the way he did. No BP didn’t do anything. It was an accident. Now of course the enviro-fascists will use this as a way to demonize American oil production even more.


16 posted on 06/30/2010 9:29:30 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: citizenredstater9271

I know Ron Paul has a bad rap on FP but I think most conservatives can agree with what he says about taxes. I for one am sick of being taxed and would like to see someone as honest about the issue as him (Dr. Paul) be president.


17 posted on 06/30/2010 9:31:43 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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To: citizenredstater9271

Communism.


18 posted on 07/01/2010 4:11:18 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
The government may raise taxes even higher
Oh pshaw. ;') Thanks citizenredstater9271.
19 posted on 07/01/2010 4:22:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s going to happen. That’s another reason I support Ron Paul for president. He would NEVER make the gov. bail out BP.


20 posted on 07/04/2010 12:57:44 AM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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