Posted on 10/27/2017 2:39:07 AM PDT by Be Careful
Parsons says that although 1872 Mining Law reform has passed in the U.S. House it remains stuck in the Senate. It is literally one person on the U.S. Senate who stops it at every turn, and thats Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and he does so because hes beholden to the mining interests because hes dependent on them for his reelection in Nevada, Parsons said.
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What a mess
Thanx for dusting this piece touching on U1 off from 2010.
Selling it off for money. At least the Rosenbergs acted out of some sort of principle, perverse as it was.
Post it all?
The miners make the same claim as ranchers that they spend so much money developing the property in order to mine/ranch that the added burden of taxation would be too much to handle. Also, that any tax would just be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher metals costs or higher meat prices.
So do Freepers hate Reid so much that they are fer everything he was agin'?
Do we now favor taxes just to spite ole' Harry?
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