Posted on 12/03/2014 12:14:10 PM PST by jyro
I can't think of a tax I have even been for so this is new ground for me. Think about a tax on imported oil. Discuss.
great post, thanks
When dealing with misguided brainwashed religious Zealots (Free Traitors) Ridicule and insults are the only way to handle them. I know I was once one of them lock stock and barrel, then I studied history and looked at economics through a historical lens and I've done a 180.
Did hurt your wittle feelings? LOL
So you were a "misguided brainwashed religious Zealot" for free trade and now you have done a 180. Logically you are still a "misguided brainwashed religious Zealot" but in the anti-free trade direction.
Right. Gas prices finally going down. Let’s tax to get the price up!
What mistake is that? Why should the US create a level playing field for foreign companies to compete against US companies in US markets?
Foreign companies already have huge advantages over US companies, in that they can get dirt cheap labor and raw materials and foreign government subsidies. They are strong enough to destroy, and they have destroyed, many American companies.
So, pray tell, what do Americans get from this deal? Unemployment? A shrinking economy? Huge debt? What?
Tell me how bad things would be here if we erected potent trade barriers to these sharks. Would we have to open mines, make automobiles and computers, pay high wages because of high employment? Tell me about it.
Raising the price for US consumers is NOT a level playing field.
Foreign companies already have huge advantages over US companies, in that they can get dirt cheap labor and raw materials and foreign government subsidies.
It must me be magic then that our economy has remained strong relative to most nations.
Making the US less economic than other nations is not a way to keep us healthy. It would cost us jobs and lower our standard of living.
I'm not sure where you get that, but I'd sure like to know.
All fraccing does is open up fractures in the formation. It does not free it from other reservoir problems inherent in any porosity in rock. If those pores are blocked when you shut the well in, you're are at best going to have to re-do the frac job, and that isn't cheap, nor will it be as effective the second time because the staging cannot be as precisely controlled. Go ahead, try running packers in a (now) perforated liner, after the perf guns have been through it.
Thanks for posting that Joe.
I’ve seen the claim before but found nothing to support or deny it.
Exactimundo.
Say we slap a $20 a bbl tax on imported oil, raising it to $90
a bbl. Domestic producers will start charging 89.99 bbl. Gasoline prices will increase proportionally. How does this help the consumer?
Price wars are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. It won’t last long so enjoy it while it lasts.
“Higher prices are not a “win.” “
So, in order to have lower prices on all products and services every product and service needs to be foreign produced.
If Americans have no jobs because everything is foreign sources then how are people going to buy anything from all those foreigners?
What you are saying is America should produce nothing; that we should buy all foreign products.
Of course you are going to pay more. You want to make more to afford a higher standard of living, so why would you screw over your fellow Americans and but them out of the picture? What happens when your job goes overseas? Do we just laugh and say at least when you do get some money you might pay less?
“Domestic producers will start charging 89.99 bbl. “
Actually, domestic suppliers will compete for your business. Right now it is all prix fixed by OPEC.
Our current domestic production has removed price controls from opec. they can’t conspire to drop production, raising prices, because there are too many opec countries that need money coming in to pay their bills and need to keep selling their oil at whatever the current market price is. they won’t stop selling because they need the money. opec can’t get all the member states to go along with it because of it.
The problem with tariffs is that they are not without consequence. If you put a tariff on the products that some country ships here, they are likely to put tariffs on our products that we ship over there.
Also, we may be forbidden from doing so under trade agreements, but I don’t know if any of those apply to this.
free trade is free trade...
tax and spend is a socialist attitude...
wanna tax those who succeed???
join the socialist (communist) party..
become a democrat
I should specifically have referred to horizontal wells typical of shale oil production.
A) The Federal Government had very few other options for raising money. B) It was a retaliation, because Europe generally, and England in particular, were tarrif’ing US products.
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