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Granholm on Past Windfall Taxes Increasing Prices: We Prefer We Don’t Have to Impose One and It Won’t Hurt Production
Breitbart ^ | 11/03/2022 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 11/03/2022 6:52:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm responded to a question on historical evidence from Europe and the U.S. that a windfall profits tax like the one floated by President Joe Biden would hurt production by stating that the “preference” is that companies lower prices or increase production without a windfall profits tax being imposed and that if a tax is implemented it would be designed to encourage more production.

Host Sara Eisen asked, “I guess what I’m wondering, though, is the windfall tax the way to do that? Haven’t we seen evidence in Europe and in this country back in the ’80s that that actually discourages companies from investing in production and just makes the shortages worse and the prices higher?”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: grandholm; prices; taxes; windfall
Besides being Canadian, what are her qualifications for this job again? 🙄🙄
1 posted on 11/03/2022 6:52:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Besides being Canadian, what are her qualifications for this job again?

She has mammary glands....that's about it.

2 posted on 11/03/2022 6:55:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27
it would be designed to encourage more production.

A tax will do exactly the opposite. Another Biden administration economic idiot.

3 posted on 11/03/2022 7:17:27 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

They just want the money and to have a villain.

They have zero interest in increasing supply and lowering prices.


4 posted on 11/03/2022 7:26:35 PM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Adder

You’ve hit the nail on the head.


5 posted on 11/03/2022 7:28:46 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Prices go up because the companies don’t pay the taxes, we do.


6 posted on 11/04/2022 5:58:22 AM PDT by brooklin
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