And the money would be used for?

[251am]

 $39.5 Billion dollars in net profit last year-ExxonMobil. A new record for American business.


  $15 Billion  tax subsidies to the energy corporations last year.     





   


 

[JBraun]

All the big corporations do is buy their way out of tax liability. Where do you think all the partisan support comes from.
Here's how the conversation goes:
Politician: "Please support my campaign."

CEO: "Why?"

Politician: "So I can take a huge salary for a couple of terms and then recieve full pension for life."

CEO: "What's in it for me?"

Politician: "In return I'll make sure your corporation doesn't get taxed to death. Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, kick me back a shitpile of money every year, so I don't forget who I'm looking out for."

CEO: "Fair enough, you crooked bastard."

Meanwhile the small business owner is taking it in the ASS so the government can balance the defecit. They think that calling us the "backbone of america" will make the rediculous tax payments easier to swallow.


Sorry, I get a little irritable around tax time....

[spyderchick]

Amen Brother.

[Super Dave]

40% tax is a pretty huge tax liability, period.

I'm sure many people own funds that have investments in oil corporations here and abroad. 

The risk that is available to the economy is that excessive taxes will slow the ability of a company to maintain supply to a specific market via buying on an open global market.  If supplies run low, the prices go up.  That's a nice immediate problem.  That tanks the economy real quick.  I'm sure that those things are even recognizable to racing organizations.  I can see in at the race track and in other opportunities.

[251am]

 Well, I guess we have conflicting sources on their (Exxon-Mobil's) actual gross v. net profits, but those numbers are not really what you are taking issue with right?

You are taking issue with what Hillary, or the government in general, will do with the $15 Billion in Federal tax subsidies that were being given to big oil, right?   

[imafrogg420]

All the big corporations do is buy their way out of tax liability. Where do you think all the partisan support comes from.
Here's how the conversation goes:
Politician: "Please support my campaign."

CEO: "Why?"

Politician: "So I can take a huge salary for a couple of terms and then recieve full pension for life."

CEO: "What's in it for me?"

Politician: "In return I'll make sure your corporation doesn't get taxed to death. Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, kick me back a shitpile of money every year, so I don't forget who I'm looking out for."

CEO: "Fair enough, you crooked bastard."

Meanwhile the small business owner is taking it in the ASS so the government can balance the defecit. They think that calling us the "backbone of america" will make the rediculous tax payments easier to swallow.


Sorry, I get a little irritable around tax time....

Amen couldn't of said it any better. My Parents own a small business and we are getting shit on by those crook polititions.

[Gixxerblade]

The government does not run the US Postal Service any longer, and if you think the military is run efficiently, spend one day on any base in the US and you will think differently.

And what base is this you are talking about? You just lumped every military branch into one sentence. You obviously have never been on a military installation to be saying things like that.

[Super Dave]

   Thank you Mr Clark.  Low pay, not a huge amount of resources, and real opportunities to get seriously hurt or killed during training, practice, and work.  Yet, some of us have still volunteered to do such a thing. 

Inspite of political cost over runs for programs and hardware, soldiers, sailors, and airmen are pretty inexpensive and do accomplish what they are allowed to do.

[spyderchick]

And what base is this you are talking about? You just lumped every military branch into one sentence. You obviously have never been on a military installation to be saying things like that.

Actually, I have. Rhiannon served with the 128th Air National Guard and was deployed during "Iraqi Freedom". (Ask me about it sometime) Also we know quite a few people in the military, as well as Roger's father and my father having served. The military (All branches) wastes a lot of money in myriads of ways, from personnel use to purchasing. The problem I find is that they are penny wise, pound foolish, as well as redundant in areas where there is no need.