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To: jersey117

“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.


17 posted on 01/23/2012 5:15:15 AM PST by ari-freedom (If SOPA passes, we will lose our Free Republic.)
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To: ari-freedom

>>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.

My guess is that Newt will be all in favor of this if he gets elected. After all, whats the difference between the ‘excessive profits’ earned by big oil companies and those earned by Bain Capital?


30 posted on 01/23/2012 5:56:04 AM PST by qwerty1234
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