Posted on 01/23/2012 4:27:36 AM PST by IbJensen
The average return to the oil companies from the sale of $1.00 worth of gasoline is a nickel!
The evil profiteering is the issuance of government checks to these six, as well as the rest of Congress, on a monthly and lifelong basis!
‘bout time We the People confiscate a few commies....
Right out of Atlas Shrugged.
would not be made up of any nominees from Congress.
Can't trust actual voters, y'know.
They get this through and we’ll see $10.00 gasoline within a year.
Dennis “the Menace” Kookcinich is an embarrassment to the State of Ohio, despite being re-elected by the idjits up there around the Mistake by the Lake.
His mental prowess is on par with his physical presence.
Will they confiscate excessive Apple, Google, Facebook and Berkshire Hathaway profits as well? Those share prices are five times the value of the average oil company stock price.
You encourage the setting up of more oil companies. This introduces something called "customer choice", which drives down the price and increases the efficiency of all the oil companies by something called "comp-et-ish-on" (You have to use phonetics with liberals or they get lost).
We are making a big mistake by even tolerating people who advocate this type of activity.
These Congressmen should be kicked out for proposing such an idea.
How about a reasonable salaries and benefits board for legislators?
Until they cap their own income at $75K/year and reduce their assets to under $500K, they have no standing.
Don't sell your ExxonMobil stock quite yet! This bill is going straight into The Abyss and will never see the light of day again!
first off, if we actually had a real Speaker of the House, instead of this mealy mouthed little wussy Boehner, these 6 would be immediately stripped of all Committee Assignments, offices locked, and be facing immediate and permanent removal from the House of Representatives.
How about the millions in excess income derived from the sale of books such as “Dreams from my Father” and “The Audacity of Hope”? After all, how hard can it be to sit at a desk writing down one’s thoughts? Then there are those obscene profits actors and actresses make. Why should someone make millions for a few days standing in front of a camera when there are many green energy companies needing subsidized capital? Not to mention the obscene profits some make giving speeches. $100,000 for a half hour speech by Bill Clinton or Colin Powell? Let’s take 90% away from them to be fair. After all $10,000 is more than enough when there are poor people who need new cell phones, flat screen TV’s, free healthcare, and government funded abortions.
That would be naive buffoon.
Plus IIRC, even when the RATS had both the House and Senate after Barry got 's'elected, Turban Durbin wrote a Senate Bill like this. And even his, as the Rat Senate Whip went nowhere. DICK then made the mistake of appearing on Neil Cavato's program trying to defend it. Neil made DICK look like he swallowed a six day old chili dog when Neil hit him with the facts on the 'evil' oil company's actual 'profit' on a gallon of gas compared to the Federal Tax on one.
But back to the Kookster, I swear he keeps getting elected just for the laugh factor.
“Will they confiscate excessive Apple, Google, Facebook and Berkshire Hathaway profits as well? Those share prices are five times the value of the average oil company stock price.”
No, they want to unite the environmentalists and the socialists while still keeping the tech lefties (who are fiercely secular and don’t have a problem with capitalism) on board.
idiots no doubt, but they are just playing to their leftwing nutjub consitutents. they know this doesnt have a chance of seeing the light of day.
stuipidity of the left, that think laws will control prices. why not put in a law to repeal gravity, or the tides, it will work just as well.
Considering the rampant insider trading by those on Capitol Hill, how about an excessive profits tax on Congress members?
He's an embarassment to the human race!
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