Oil tax increase would help pay to clean up spills (Quadruple!)

Breitbart / AP ^ | May 24, 2010 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

[Natural Born 54]

Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple—to 32 cents a barrel—a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups.

[Natural Born 54]

Another brilliant stimulus for the economy!/s

[wac3rd]

How about taking some of the billions ALREADY PAID and pay for it...Government is out of control.

[ml/nj]

I thought Obama was going to make BP pay for whatever clean-up is required.

ML/NJ

[freekitty]

Didn’t BP just say they would foot the entire bill?

[cripplecreek]

Never let a crisis go to waste.

[csmusaret]

Pay for cleanups? Did Obamassiah take his boot off BP’s throat?

[Lorianne]

Either way, and probably both ways at once, the end user pays.

[ml/nj]

Either way, and probably both ways at once, the end user pays.

No!

Any government tax becomes a perpetual sinecure for the political class. It is merely another excuse to extract funds from the little people. What exactly would the government do for a bunch of dead pelicans anyway?

ML/NJ

[Diogenesis]

"Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million
to federal …with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama"

"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"

"Obama admin exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "

"Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico"

"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"

"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "

"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"

"U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP …
to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits "

”Obama sat on sand berm request 2 weeks, still no reply"

“Lab Chosen To Test Oil Spill Water & Animal Samples Has Ties To BP
In addition to this potential conflict of interest, federal officials have mandated that BP
gets to hire the companies that collect data as part of efforts to rescue wildlife covered with oil."

“Oil Spill - CBS Threatened With Arrest For Filming The Oil Spill (Coast Guard: "This Is BP's Rules."

[taildragger]

And we laughed at Maxine Waters.....

[ryan71]

Regardless of whose fault the spill is and who is responsible for paying to clean it up this is an opportunity for Obama to raise gas taxes and grab our money.

When the public freaks out, Obama points at BP.

[taxtruth]

The “us” government make the mafia look like choir boys.

[Buckeye McFrog]

looks to me like any work being done to clean-up this spill is being done by BP or Bobby Jindal. The Feds are just sending Lawyahs down to twiddle their thumbs.

[TigersEye]

What happened to BP paying all the bills? Did their campaign contributions to Barry0 pay off?

[Danae]

Yea, like that won’t be charged to the consumers. Perfect excuse for raising taxes eh? Hey Obama, how about you and all of congress work for free with no benefits FOREVER? Yea, that sounds good.

[Recovering_Democrat]

they better not.

[Texas Fossil]

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!

That type of tax extends to everything manufactured because of transportation cost. Instand VAT.

I guess there should be no surprises here, they are Dems. They never saw a tax they did not like. And they cannot stand the the citizens to have freedom to choose what they want to do.

[JoanneSD]

In the health care bill, mary landrui(S) got 300 million put in to pay for disasters if she voted for the health care bill...... I would think some of this would be spent on this mess

[ClearCase_guy]

Didn’t BP just say they would foot the entire bill?

Sure. This "oil tax" to help "pay for the cleanup" is probably going to be used to bailout the UAW pension fund.

It's just easier to sell the new tax if we say it's (yuk, yuk) to "cleanup the oil".