Venezuela may create windfall oil tax: Chavez

Reuters ^ | Feb 17, 2008

[proxy_user]

Say, doesn’t the government of Venezuela own all the oil anyway? Who exactly are they going to tax?

If themselves, I have no objection.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

I see ol' Hugo's taking a page from Hillary!s screed.

[Nextrush]

He has to get people’s minds off all the food shortages so why not get them riled up about gasoline prices.

[ronnie raygun]

This is the man who has his sights on Conquering south America, just you wait and see! and as we fight the islamo terrorists in the middle east they are aready at work on a new front in Africa. So yes, I really feel confident with a Pelosi in congress and a Hillary or Obama in the Whitehouse.

[dynachrome]

Osama/hildabeast will lick this up for their followers

(hadn’t seen your nic for awhile. Welcome back)

[RightWhale]

Venezuela created OPEC on the model of the Texas Railroad Commission and can do whatever they want with their oil, however ill-advised.

[preacher]

“Who exactly are they going to tax?”

The oil companies, same as Hillary & all communists.

[GAB-1955]

Hugo Chavez is a Mussolini without the means to conquer Latin America. The Brazilians would throw him out on his ass. He could try to conquer Guyana, but the British would make him unhappy. The worse he can do is to support the Columbian insurgency.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Let’s tax Hollywood, for windfall profits...

That ought to shut the marxists up.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Guess what, Hugo? The idea of taxing your country into prosperity isn’t real original, the RINOs and DemonRats here in America have been advancing that agenda for generations. Sadly, there’s a lot of meathead voters that buy it.

[Kakaze]

Who exactly are they going to tax?

In the end...every one.

[Cobra64]

I see ol' Hugo's taking a page from Hillary!s screed.

And the moron Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. He was advocating an "obscene oil profits tax" last year.

[FormerACLUmember]

Chavez is indistinguishable from any democrat party (expletive deleted) politician.

[Bear_Slayer]

Chavez is a terrorist.

He uses economics instead of C4 or planes.

It seems to me that he wants gas prices to go up and to hurt the US gas buyers.

[Rodm]

Darell and Darell or Dumb and Dumber.

Hugo deserves a Mussolini foot massage right after his citizens shoot him.

[therut]

Sounds just like our Socialists I mean Democrats.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

"Soon I want to be presented with a recommendation for what we could call the tax on sudden earnings," Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast.

I thought his oil companies were nationaliaed. Are they going to tax themselves?

Brilliant.

[RJL]

Let’s tax Hollywood, for windfall profits...

That's a great idea.

The liberals all hate the big drug companies when they must charge a steep markup on the actual cost of drugs to recoup their massive research and liability costs.

It should be the same for Hollywood and the recording industry. A DVD or CD that costs only pennies is being sold for up to $30 and more.

We need government action to set the maximum price of Hollywood movies and music to $1 where it should be!
/S

[RJL]

And the moron Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. He was advocating an "obscene oil profits tax" last year.

Someone need to publicly ask BOR if he will agree to pay the same taxation rates as the oil companies.

That should get him thinking and sputtering for a while.