To: Blood of Tyrants
The oil companies get to keep maybe 40% of their profits. They get taxed every way imaginable, and some ways aren't imaginable by everybody.
15 posted on
04/26/2006 6:43:32 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: RightWhale
The oil companies get to keep maybe 40% of their profits. They get taxed every way imaginable, and some ways aren't imaginable by everybody. Wrong, corporations never pay taxes, they never have and they never will, they collect taxes, tax is just another part of the cost of the item they sell. The consumer pays taxes.
95 posted on
04/26/2006 7:34:35 PM PDT by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: RightWhale
The oil companies get to keep maybe 40% of their profits. And that is passed to the shareholders as dividends.
112 posted on
04/26/2006 7:56:40 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: RightWhale
40 billion profits AFTER taxes?? Awwww poor little darlings
To bad so sad about taxes they have to pay!
124 posted on
04/26/2006 8:07:36 PM PDT by
stopem
(To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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