Posted by
jwinkles on Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:03:58 AM
Once again our highly intelligent group of lawyers in the House of Representatives have proved themselves worthy of the title “Monkey Clowns”. The House on Wednesday voted to repeal $18 billion in tax breaks for big oil companies according to Reuters news service. In other words, their ingenious plan for helping out Americans at the gas pump is to raise taxes on the companies which supply gas. In the words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “Gasoline at the pump has gone up 75 cents, 75 cents since we first took up this legislation; imagine what that means to household income.”
Yes, Ms. Pelosi, imagine. I am trying to imagine why you find it clever to raise taxes on the American people. Perhaps your economic knowledge is limited. Don’t you realize that raising taxes on what you call “big oil” will cause the price of fuel to go up? When you try to punish corporations for making “windfall profits” by raising their taxes, you are only punishing the American people. Also, if your theory of increased taxes on “big oil” helps us at the pump, why don’t you just take all of the oil profits? Better yet, you should outlaw profits altogether in every industry. Then we can rely solely on government for all our needs. This will eliminate all income classes in our society. We can all wear bamboo hats and gather rice together. Maybe, if we’re really good, Ms. Pelosi will let us have a slice of bologna with our bread and water.
Why can’t the answer ever be less taxation? Who knows, maybe if the oppressive tax on fuel was reduced, prices would fall. Then again, I am just one of the stupid worker drones so what the heck do I know. Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the miscreants in Congress are obviously experts in every industry in the United States. If we, the peasants would just let them take control, this would be a better world. Yeah, well KISS OFF!