Sen. Rand Paul: When Big Oil Screws Americans At The Gas Pump, ‘You Should Want To Encourage Them’

[robert l. bentham]

The top five oil companies in the United States have already made $5.8 billion in windfall profits from spiking gasoline prices this year. Yesterday, Senate Republicans agreed to debate a bill that repeals $2 billion in annual tax breaks for these super-wealthy oil giants. The move was purely a political calculation — don’t expect the GOP to end taxpayer welfare for their Big Oil allies. GOP senators like Rand Paul (R-KY) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) have used their time on the Senate floor today to push error-riddled arguments coming straight from their oil industry donors.
Paul argued Big Oil deserves even more favors from government, because they’re doing such a good job extracting wealth from American families:

Instead of punishing them, you should want to encourage them. I would thinkyou would want to say to the oil companies, “What obstacles are there to you making more money?” And hiring more people. Instead they say, “No, we must punish them. We must tax them more to make things fair.” This whole thing about fairness is so misguided and gotten out of hand.​

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012...e-gas-pump-you-should-want-to-encourage-them/

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Only people who don't make any money should pay taxes because obviously they are freeloading.

 

[robert l. bentham]

when it comes to solar and wind they scream about how if they were viable industries they wouldn't need subsidies... oil deserves these handouts because it's unfair to take them away now that they're churning profits many times over the handouts. these guys are assclowns.

 

[cecilia]

Senators Who Voted To Protect Oil Tax Breaks Received $23,582,500 From Big Oil

 

[redrumloa]

Rand is not quite as good as his Daddy.

 

[faethor]

No real suprise here. Republican favor Big Business over most everything, except the womb then they favor Big Government.