Because they’re paid to the government like taxes are.
Those poor oil companies having to pay royalties to those peoples they are taking oil from! Oh the injustice!
Oh, thos sympathetic Democrats! They care so much about the price of gas, until it’s pointed out that a third of it is directly tied to government taxes, more tied to the government indirectly from royalties and regulations. Then they shrug. Not our problem they respond.
What would we do if the Democrats weren’t helping us into the poor house?
Kenny - 06:03pm on 03/13/2008
Who Owns What Part of What
Get It?
WOOF - 06:03pm on 03/13/2008
Functional people make intelligent decisions and invest, instead of dropping out of school and procreating too early and too much.
Kevin - 06:03pm on 03/13/2008
Kevin. Exactly. People make choices. They begin to make choices in school when they decide who to make friends with, to do their homework or not and to do drugs, have sex with and steal.
The Democrats would call this an “obscene profit” if they were consistent and honest.
But they’re not.
Why tie taxes with royalties?
Those poor oil companies having to pay royalties to those peoples they are taking oil from! Oh the injustice!
Lazy, greedy ND government bureaucrats and their lazy, greedy cronies are laughing all the way to their credit unions!
And who owns the oil companies, anyway? Pension funds, individual investors, mutual funds. And me.
RedPlanetCartoons put up a great illustration of this: http://conservablogs.com/dpgi/?p=480
Because they’re paid to the government like taxes are.
Oh, thos sympathetic Democrats! They care so much about the price of gas, until it’s pointed out that a third of it is directly tied to government taxes, more tied to the government indirectly from royalties and regulations. Then they shrug. Not our problem they respond.
What would we do if the Democrats weren’t helping us into the poor house?
Who Owns What Part of What
Get It?
Functional people make intelligent decisions and invest, instead of dropping out of school and procreating too early and too much.
Kevin. Exactly. People make choices. They begin to make choices in school when they decide who to make friends with, to do their homework or not and to do drugs, have sex with and steal.