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Edited on Thu Sep-08-05 12:54 PM by Atman
Now is not the time for the states to be taking money out of their own coffers to pay for the profiteering and blundering of Big Oil BushCo and his Bumbling Band of Cronies. Fuck that!
Pass laws instead which shift the cost burden onto those who've reaped embarrassing riches off the pain and suffering of so many, the ones who rely on this LA for the ports and refineries which make them their profits. Where the hell are they? Where the hell is the president of Exxon/Mobil stepping up to the plate and donating 1/10th of 1% of it's last-quarter profits to the hurricane relief effort? Where?
No, I implore you...do NOT shift yet another burden onto that segment of society least able to absorb more pain. It is simply wrong, and that is what a tax cut on gasoline would be -- taking money out of the state coffers already near-empty after years of BushCo budget busting and tax cuts. Shifting tax funds in ways which merely enable price-gouging oil companies, and the bailing out of a federal government which should be dealing with this issue in the first place, seems to me to be a short sighted approach at a time when so much fiscal uncertainty looms.
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