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Barack Obama urges end to tax subsidies for Big Oil
Politico ^ | 4/30/11 | MJ LEE

Posted on 04/30/2011 3:00:26 PM PDT by ColdOne

“When oil companies are making huge profits and you’re struggling at the pump, and we’re scouring the federal budget for spending we can afford to do without, these tax giveaways aren’t right,” Obama said Saturday. “They aren’t

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1 posted on 04/30/2011 3:00:28 PM PDT by ColdOne
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“They aren’t smart. And we need to end them.”
2 posted on 04/30/2011 3:02:14 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne

You see, all money belongs to the government, so when oil companies, or anybody else, gets a tax break, it’s like stealing from Uncle Sam. Get it? Property rights are so outdated.

All our money are belong to us.


3 posted on 04/30/2011 3:02:50 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: ColdOne

The only way to beat these people is to call their bet and raise.


4 posted on 04/30/2011 3:06:20 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: ColdOne
Are you going to end them for everyone? I notice that Obama got 'subsidies' when he filed his tax return. Are we ending those subsidies too? Boeing just spent $2 billion of its own money to build a new plant. When they try to depreciate the cost of that plant (over several years), are the leftists going to decry the 'subsidies' that Boeing is receiving?

This whole "subsidies for oil companies' rhetoric is all a big lie.

5 posted on 04/30/2011 3:08:41 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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When oil companies are making huge profits and you’re struggling at the pump, and we’re scouring the federal budget for spending we can afford to do without, these tax giveaways aren’t right,” Obama said Saturday. “They aren’t
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May I please ask how taking away subsidies from oil companies is going to help our struggle at the pump?

Actually it will make it worse because the oil companies will simply raise the price.

But that isn’t the point and Obama knows it.

If the Government takes away those subsidies they will not go back into the Treasury. Obama will spend them buying windmills. But he doesn’t think we are smart enough to figure that out.


6 posted on 04/30/2011 3:09:28 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: screaminsunshine
The only way to beat these people is to call their bet and raise.

Yep!

First we need to find someone with the cajones for poker.

7 posted on 04/30/2011 3:09:31 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ColdOne

Barry - It is not YOUR money .
It does not belong to the government
You tax them and our costs will go up.
Shut up and go away...........


8 posted on 04/30/2011 3:10:06 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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Hey. Good luck. This crop of GOP is like flogging themselves.


9 posted on 04/30/2011 3:11:17 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: ColdOne

Well, that’ll cause $7/gallon gasoline or nothing will.


10 posted on 04/30/2011 3:11:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. TR)
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I’m sorry to say that there are many people who buy this nonsense. They think that “big oil” and speculators are driving up the price of oil. I wonder where these people go when the price of oil drops? The lack of understanding of even the basics of economics is frightening.


11 posted on 04/30/2011 3:13:06 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Hoodat

Try explaining that to the illinformed voters.
‘end subsidies’ sounds good to the untrained ear. If the Obama administration tries to end these legitimate business expenses ONLY for the oil companies, will it hold up in court?


12 posted on 04/30/2011 3:13:07 PM PDT by griswold3 (Character is destiny)
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To: ColdOne

Don’t you have to have Production before you have subsidies?


13 posted on 04/30/2011 3:13:18 PM PDT by 4Liberty (88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
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To: ColdOne
“Drill Barry Drill!!!

Just say we will you big dummy and the price will drop by half tomorrow.

14 posted on 04/30/2011 3:15:46 PM PDT by Happy Rain (WOLF3ABM581)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Guess Uncle Sam missed the correlation between the falling dollar and the rise in gasoline prices....gas isn’t more expensive,just that the dollar is approaching toilet paper value. Thank you O Great One (and your side-kick, Fed Chief Beanie).


15 posted on 04/30/2011 3:17:22 PM PDT by yadent
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To: ColdOne

We need to end Government subsidies at the pump and elsewhere.

Tax REVOLUTION!


16 posted on 04/30/2011 3:19:58 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Obama and the left are making a mockery of our country.)
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To: ColdOne

The American public isn’t keen enough to know the difference between 1 ply and 2 ply right now, let alone the diff between a low tax rate and a subsidy.

One wonders if Mr. O is pursuing the same tax punishment for GE and his other bed buds.

Stalin re-warmed.


17 posted on 04/30/2011 3:35:50 PM PDT by lurk
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To: ColdOne
Yet the U.S. Export/Import Bank is loaning $2.5 billion to George Soros-backed Petrobras for drilling off the coast of Brazil and $2 billion to Columbia to build a refinery.
18 posted on 04/30/2011 3:50:08 PM PDT by bwc2221
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Econ 101....if you want more of something that benefits society you subsidize it.......Energy and Food

Wonder why the Obama regime doenst talk about ending pure govt welfare in terms of Home Mtg. Int. deduction, IRA and or 401k deducts......things that Indiv. should be doing on their own anyway.......

.....but now he’d be talking about millions of voters?


19 posted on 04/30/2011 3:57:42 PM PDT by sbark
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To: ColdOne

Since when is a legitimate business expense deduction a tax subsidy?

Obama and his voters are economic illiterates. They should have to pay ten bucks a gallon to subsidize us from their stupidity.


20 posted on 04/30/2011 4:17:01 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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