[ChessExpert]

Well I guess that if there is a tax, you have to pay it.

Perhaps oil companies gave up their political resistance to the tax as quid pro quo for permission to export oil. That would be a shame.

What comes out load and clear in the NYT’s article is Koch, Koch, Koch. What a trashy newspaper.

[Rashputin]

No foolin, they report what amounts to a major change by multiple massive corporations and just skim past that because it's only liberal enlightenment spreading to weave yet another "Darth Koch" attack.