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Sure, I'll agree to a "reasonable profits board" for the oil industry as long as we also mandate and regulate salaries and profits in other highly profitable industries: Hollywood, Wall Street traders, NBA basketball players, and rock musicians.

I can just hear the howling from Democratic circles.

1 posted on 01/20/2012 2:23:50 PM PST by tom h
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Ayn Rand please call your office. Wesley Mouch is holding on line one.


2 posted on 01/20/2012 2:27:57 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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“I am become Barry, destroyer of wealth”.....


4 posted on 01/20/2012 2:31:00 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (I am become Barry, destroyer of wealth......)
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"I can just hear the howling from Democratic circles"

Marxine Waters (Socialist, Watts), "If you don't like it, we'll just nationalize the oil industry."

yitbos

5 posted on 01/20/2012 2:31:10 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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Me,me, me, pick me...to be the King of All that is Reasonable! I will divine what is reasonable and what is not.


7 posted on 01/20/2012 2:31:37 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Neo-communist equals Neo-fascist)
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How bout eliminating all taxes on energy federal, state and local?..
Energy is the “MILK” of any economy..


8 posted on 01/20/2012 2:32:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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Chinese bicycle company on line one...


9 posted on 01/20/2012 2:33:28 PM PST by Truth29
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How about a “Reasonable College Tuition Board”?


10 posted on 01/20/2012 2:33:51 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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Mitt thinks he can work with these people.


11 posted on 01/20/2012 2:34:30 PM PST by DManA
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Sure!
We’ll submit Nan Pelosi’s earnings from her conflicts of interest during the ‘08 spike in gas prices for review.


13 posted on 01/20/2012 2:35:14 PM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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How about we let oil companies regulate the pay of Dem Commies like the ones proposing this board.


14 posted on 01/20/2012 2:35:21 PM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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Are we going to have one for google profits and berkshire Hathaway profits? The per share value of the oil companies is a fraction of those.


15 posted on 01/20/2012 2:35:32 PM PST by jersey117 (Perry 2012)
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Congress needs a rational representative review board to kick about 3/4s of them out.


16 posted on 01/20/2012 2:37:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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Oh, I agree totally. So much I advise formation of a similar body to cap the obscene profits in Hollywood.

And let’s not forget that Universities are more and more simply Debt Traps For Minorities —they get degrees in major not applicable to any market, then can’t get jobs.

Let’s HELP MINORITIES by ending fed grants for students of such majors.

And then: Ivy League Universities have HUUUGE endowment, right? Hey, too much —let’s tax them over some threshold value.

Fair is fair, right?


17 posted on 01/20/2012 2:37:52 PM PST by gaijin
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How about reasonable Federal taxes on gas & oil? The last time I looked the governmenttook in about 5 times the profit margin on each gal. of gas sold.


18 posted on 01/20/2012 2:38:11 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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This would be much better and would help oil prices to go down. Just make anyone that buys oil futures to take physical delivery of said oil.


19 posted on 01/20/2012 2:39:08 PM PST by Racer1
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These people never learn from their mistakes or mistakes of the past. Something like this was tried back in the 70’s with a cost ceiling on oil. The result was the second gas shortage of the 70’s causing long lines at gas stations.


20 posted on 01/20/2012 2:39:58 PM PST by Rogle
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I want to sit on the board that regulates how much money members of Congress can make. First, we cut their salaries down to the poverty level....


22 posted on 01/20/2012 2:40:57 PM PST by susannah59
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Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits.

A "reasonable terms board" would be much more productive by weeding out the lifers in Washington.

23 posted on 01/20/2012 2:41:03 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Impeach the culprits for attempting to overthrow the Constitution and the common-law rights of citizens to own property free of the threat of arbitrary confiscation.


24 posted on 01/20/2012 2:41:52 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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Can we set up a “Reasonable Drilling Board” instead?


25 posted on 01/20/2012 2:42:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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