Osama watching his favorite senator, Claire "Love Pats" McCaskill, on TV.
I’m guessing she doesn’t want to keep her precious Senate seat much longer. Someone needs to tell Claire that you run to the center or the right to get elected. This will not play well.
Isn’t this like a bill of attainder? Passing a bill that specifically declares one industry (oil) to be taxed differently than others?
End it for the “green” energy too, ClaireIdiot. =.=
This is going to make energy cheaper??
I don’t think so.
Even an idiot like myself can see that the oil company will simply pass the cost’s on the the consumer, Me.
But isn’t that the point? Don’t they want to make gasoline $5.00 a gallon or more?
This is what’s known as demagoguery. Will it work. I don’t expect it will for McCaskill this time.
GOP needs to get ON THE AIR TONIGHT with the line, “Sen. McCaskil wants $6.00 a gallon gasoline.”
Get out in front of this thing and f’n BEAT it like a red-headed stepchild!
Now is this the same Claire McCaskill who did not pay taxes on her PERSONAL airplane for several years in a row? That Claire McCaskill?
....how is crushing the oil companies with fat taxes going to bring down the price or help the consumer?
1. Evidently, Senator McCaskill can't distinguish between a "subsidy" and a "tax deduction". Welfare is a "subsidy"; its recipients get a check from the taxpayers. A "tax deduction" is what you take for your mortgage interest.
2. Somebody should ask Senator McCaskill to define the difference between amortization of capital assets as they apply to her corporate airplane and drilling expenses. Why is one a valid tax deduction and the other is not.
MC, your Senator is now officially in the race for "dumbest person in the Senate".
In other words, “I want gas prices to go even higher!”
Businesses do not pay taxes - they pass the costs along to consumers. There should not be any business taxes.
More demagoguery by the leftists. Unfortunately the weak kneed Republicans are going to lose both the PR battle and the war with their normal politics.
Go on the offensive. Talk about Obama’s buddies at GE paying zero income tax while the oil companies pay billions in taxes. Talk about Goldman Sachs raking in billions and paying out billions in bonuses.
Also talk about how US companies that don’t have sweetheart deals like Goldman and GE pay higher corporate taxes than Chinese companies resulting in American jobs going to China.
Offer a real solution. Take the corporate tax rate to a flat 20%. Period. No credits, deferrals, loopholes and subsidies. Tell the public we want to do better than the Dems — end all of the tax loopholes across the board and make every corporation pay the same rate. End all special privileges while making the US corporate tax rate competitive with Europe and Asia to encourage investment in the US. Even the dumbed down US public can understand this call to action.
The Republicans are playing a PR game they can’t win by defending oil tax credits. The only way to win is this one is by turning the tables, offering to eliminate all corporate tax breaks while at the same time getting a flat corporate tax rate set at a level to make US companies competitive. It is a winning message and good for the economy.
The left really wants to end tax breaks for all non-leftist things. That’s the left’s pipe dream.
Do these losers even OWN televisions? One of their own, former congresscritter Martin Frost has backed up what Gov. Palin has already said:
“Big Oil” has not been allowed to receive these subsidies since 1976. And they aren’t getting them now. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s the broadcast interview.