[an amused spectator]

So let me do some numbers crunching from my post #48:

Exxon made $1.1 billion dollars more in 2007 than it did in 2006 - while the government made $5 billion more from Exxon in 2007 than it did in 2006.

Nice work, if you can get it!

And the New York Times & Wikipedia will cover for you, to boot! SWEET!

[an amused spectator]

So, continuing:

Let's say that "evil" Exxon is making 50 cents off a gallon of $3.50 a gallon gasoline (probably not - a lot less, but just for the sake of argument...).

That would mean that the government is making two and a half times that, or $1.25 a gallon.

So, when I filled up yesterday and bought 15 gallons of gasoline, that would mean that Exxon made $7.50, and the government made $18.75.

If you had a choice, who would you want to be - the guy with the ten spot, or the guy with the double sawbuck?

;-)

[org.whodat]

A whole lot different than your first statement isn't it. If Exxon and you do not want to pay taxes there is always the option of going out of business. And since it is so, so expensive for them the sooner the better.