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To: steve-b
There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere.

A. it sounds like she did. B. The CATO institute needs to do a clean up of their own idiot staff. They are supposed to be something like intellectual sophisticated and honest, even though they are really another bunch of K street lobbyists trying to get taxes reduced - not for you and me - but for their paying clients, BIG OIL.

Q. Why do you tax companies. A. It's like robbing banks. That is where the money is.

The real question about taxes, as Milton Friedman used to remind us, is whether or not we are getting out money's worth. Well, we aren't. But that isn't the part CATO is worried about.

BTW does anyone see the oxymoronic nature of a libertarian lobbyist group, of never done anything in their lives quasi-academics.

14 posted on 09/04/2008 7:17:31 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Rants about BIG OIL? Did I somehow get connected to barackisthemessiah.com?


17 posted on 09/04/2008 7:19:54 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: AndyJackson

well I want Big oil to get tax cuts because I want more oil!!!!


24 posted on 09/04/2008 7:27:29 AM PDT by ari-freedom (You better think think about what you're trying to do to me)
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