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Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits
The Hill ^
| 01/19/12
| Pete Kasperowicz
Posted on 01/20/2012 2:23:36 PM PST by tom h
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To: ClearCase_guy
Atlas is going to end up with repetitive motion disorder before this administration is finished with US.
To: tom h
I want to sit on the board that regulates how much money members of Congress can make. First, we cut their salaries down to the poverty level....
To: tom h
Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits. A "reasonable terms board" would be much more productive by weeding out the lifers in Washington.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:41:03 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: tom h
Impeach the culprits for attempting to overthrow the Constitution and the common-law rights of citizens to own property free of the threat of arbitrary confiscation.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:41:52 PM PST
by
WhiskeyX
To: tom h
Can we set up a “Reasonable Drilling Board” instead?
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:42:09 PM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: tom h
I am proposing a “reasonable profits board” to regulate salary and pension of house members. I really don’t think they earn all that money we give them, so let’s all share the wealth and tax their salary and profits at 150% or so.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:42:35 PM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
To: w1andsodidwe
All your oil profits are belong to us!
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:44:16 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
To: Young Werther
That’s funny. A FACE IN THE CROWD aired on TCM the day obama was inaugurated. :)
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:44:56 PM PST
by
ElayneJ
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can we set up a “Reasonable Government Employee Salary” board, too?
And a “Reasonable Government Pension” board?
How about a “Reasonable Price for Air Jordans” board?
“Reasonable Investment Return for Congressmen and Senators”?
“Reasonable Lobbyist Gifts” board?
“Reasonable Donations to Non-Profits” board?
“Reasonable Attorneys Fee” board?
Are you guys sure you want to go there?
To: tom h
I hear Kucinich has a rich wife. Let’s confiscate all her money “for the public good”.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:46:25 PM PST
by
Argus
To: formosa
” How about we let oil companies regulate the pay of Dem Commies like the ones proposing this board. “
They already do, through “campaign contributions” (snicker), perks from their lobbyists, and the occasional tidbits of ‘insider’ stock information....
You don’t really think that people run for Congress for the *salary*, do you??
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:47:21 PM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: tom h
How can we expect companies to innovate and improve efficiency if we're going to confiscate any gains anyway.
More expensive oil means more expensive everything else.
Let's confiscate any profits on book deals and speaker fees for all congress critters and presidents; past, present and future instead.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:50:07 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: tom h
The word Communist would be fitting for this
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:50:58 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: tom h
Socialist bastards be damned!
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:52:55 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: tom h
The committee can be chaired by Hugo Chavez.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:56:07 PM PST
by
lurk
To: tom h
Even thought The Hill is usually reliable, I assumed they were hacked. Then I found this on some blogs and assumed they had all taken in the same article from The Onion, but that site doesn't have the story yet. Now Forbes has the story. Did they all get taken in, or are the Dems continuing to use Atlas Shrugged as a legislative guide. If this is true, are the Dem politicians really that stupid, or are they just evil.
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:57:15 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: tom h
Oh, I agree totally. So much I advise formation of a similar body to cap the obscene profits in Hollywood.
And let’s not forget that Universities are more and more simply Debt Traps For Minorities —they get degrees in major not applicable to any market, then can’t get jobs.
Let’s HELP MINORITIES by ending fed grants for students of such majors.
And then: Ivy League Universities have HUUUGE endowment, right? Hey, too much —let’s tax them over some threshold value.
Fair is fair, right?
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posted on
01/20/2012 2:57:34 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Argus
"I hear Kucinich has a rich wife. " Forget about what you hear, I can see that he has a knockout for a wife. Money, schmoney. I can't figure out what such a gorgeous redhead sees in such a little twerp like Kucinich.
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01/20/2012 3:01:49 PM PST
by
tom h
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posted on
01/20/2012 3:06:13 PM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-Free zones are playgrounds for felons)
To: HereInTheHeartland
Actually fascism Italian model is far more acurate. Mussolini’s fascist economic policies controlled the means of production by partial ownership,rules/regulation,threats of mob action by party members(think OWS/acorn by whatever name it now goes by).
Determined who would be allowed to produce goods/services, what price the goods would be sold at, who was allowed to buy & what the profit margin would be. All so-called excess profits would be seized & be used as a slush fund by the politicians & if the business went belly up the politicians had a built in scape goat . The business owner who obviously wasn’t smart enough or dedicated enough to make his business work.
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posted on
01/20/2012 3:12:10 PM PST
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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