Government is stripping our money and our rights by the trillions and this idiot worries about some company making money. Hey, dingbat, leave congress and boycott whatever company you choose. If only the rest of us could boycott the government bully on the corner.
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Any word on the Reasonable Taxes Board? If the 7%-8% profit on gasoline is obscene what do we call the 15%-20% tax?
Ping.
I swear they must be using Atlas Shrugged as a guidebook.............
I was thinking of starting a board called “The Reasonable and Prudent White House Expenditure Board” to regulate the expenses for White House party’s, vacations, plane travel, staff, and renovations.
Yep, that sounds about right.
Hey comrades, that sounds good.
No kidding....How AMERICAN’s aren’t OUTRAGED and in the streets calling for Dems to be Ousted in mass is beyond me. I wonder who they would pick to head the Committee? Someone from the Occupy movement?? OBAMA MUST BE DEFEATED in NOVEMBER!
How about a Congressional Responsibility Board which would enforce a statute that Congressional salaries are zeroed out in any year in which the Federal Government spends more than it takes in.
Holy sh!t I hate these effin douchenozzles. Regulate oil company profits? These companies (and their shareholders) take all the risk, do all the work, fight the gubermint interference and tree-hugging douches along the way, and MAYBE eek out ten cents per gallon profit for providing an essential product. Then, AFTER THROWING UP ONE ROADBLOCK AFTER ANOTHER between the company and its dime, these hypocrites STEAL anywhere from what, 30-60 cents per gallon depending on which state you're in?
Why don't they tell WE THE PEOPLE the truth for a change. Gubermint the greedy thief here...lining its pockets for doing NOTHING. That they have the brass balls to villianize the oil companies over gas prices is unforgiveable. /rant off
How are they going to “control price”? No one can do that.
They’ll probably get their way. This is Obamaland after all.
Now go pay your taxes - your government is broke. :)
I believe this is exactly what happened when "price controls" were put in effect on gasoline in HI, and of course, there's the classic example of NYC's "rent control."
Mark
another creep towards MARXISM by the MARXISTS in Washington.
From Exxon-Mobil 2010 annual report
Total Revenue - 383,221,000,000
TOTAL TAXES - 86,226,000,000 - 22.5%
Net Income - 30,460,000,000 - 7.95%
My current level of bile is unprintable at this time.
This isn’t Marxism, it’s Fascism.
I’m shocked nobody started using the word back in 2008. When the government starts ‘owning’ businesses, you end up with Fascism.
This is from Wikipedia, but it’s solid:
“Fascism supports a socially united, collective national society and opposes socially divided class-based societies (including liberal bourgeois and Marxian proletarian class-based societies) and socially-divided individualist-based society.[17] Fascists claim it is a trans-class movement, advocating resolution to domestic class conflict within a nation to secure national solidarity.[18] While fascism opposes domestic class conflict, it favours a proletarian national culture and claims that its goal of nationalizing society emancipates the nation’s proletariat, and promotes the assimilation of all classes into proletarian national culture.[19] It opposes contemporary bourgeois class-based society and culture for allegedly being based on selfish and hedonistic individualism that results in plutocracy and war profiteering at the expense of the nation.[20] Fascism claims that bourgeois-proletarian conflict primarily exists in national conflict between proletarian nations versus bourgeois nations; fascism declares support for the victory of proletarian nations.[21]
Fascists advocate: a state-directed, regulated economy that is dedicated to the nation; the use and primacy of regulated private property and private enterprise contingent upon service to the nation or state; the use of state enterprise where private enterprise is failing or is inefficient; and autarky.[22] It supports criminalization of strikes by employees and lockouts by employers as illegal acts it deems these acts as prejudicial to the national community as a whole.[23]”
ConocoPhillips 2010 Numbers:
Total Revenues = $198,655 million
Total Taxes = $25,126 million (12.6%)
Profit = $11,358 million (5.7%)
Consolidated Statement of operations ConocoPhillips
http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/about/company_reports/annual_report/Documents/2010_SummaryAnnualReport.pdf
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The real “1 percent” in the U.S. is the political class and the federal bureaucracy. Their greed is unmatched and won’t end until they’ve killed the golden goose.
Will they also impose that on Apple?
Goldman Sachs?
Hollywood?
Oh, sorry, those are Democrat-protected industries.
We need to regulate the rats pay in government
...drill for more oil and refine more gasoline, RIGHT?
Oh, nevermind. They not only DON'T give a damn, they WANT gas prices to go higher, so that they can have a convenient scapegoat and impose yet more governmental control over private industry and activities.
I don't own any stock in any oil company, nor am I associated in any way with it except as a customer, and I can say without any doubt that the oil companies are entitled to any profits that they can honestly earn. If one company tries to gouge too much, its competitors will eat it for lunch. But the moment the Dems get involved, the prices go through the roof due to stifling regulation and fear of the future. I'd be way too charitable to call the Dems "morons," and I'd be insulting actual morons, to boot - but they never seem to learn.