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  • Oil-Goguery: Gibson Touts Windfall-Profits Tax, Caps on Exec Compensation

    05/08/2006 5:36:03 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 49 replies · 1,067+ views
    GMA/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    by Mark Finkelstein May 8, 2006 The worst possible 'solution' to the high cost of gasoline would be price controls, since they would simultaneously drive down production and drive up demand. But running a close second and third in the bad-idea sweepstakes would be a windfall-profits tax on oil companies and a cap on the amount oil companies can pay their executives. Two out of three ain't bad, so let's give GMA's Charlie Gibson an A- in his attempt to demagogue the gas-price issue this morning. His guest was the soft-spoken James Mulva, Chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips, the nation's...