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As Skyrock said, they have made record profits since Katrina.
The refineries and drilling rigs were put back in production Days after Katrina.
The Government still can't get out of their mess down there.
Yeah, taxes didn't do squat and those miserable profit mongering greedy bastages kept the fuel flowing.
What, you think that moronic mayor could have handled it better?
Taxes are taking money from Productive Areas and redistributing it to into areas that do not produce.
I own a newer mustang, full size 3/4 ton chevy van purely for recreation, a toyota camry, and a motorcycle. I drive hundreds of miles Each and Every Day.
I couldn't care less what the gas costs. It's part of what I do. If I spent my day crying about the cost of gas I would spend most of my time worrying instead of being rather comfortable. If you are concerned about something as minor as the cost of fuel, rethink your efforts, don't blame someone successful.
I fight daily to insure that what I, and those around me, earn remain under My and Their control, because I intend to do with my profits as I wish, I know better what I want to do than any government who thinks they are owed what I built. I will pay taxes towards First, defense of this nation, then Education. After that, fuel taxes should pay for Roads, property taxes take care of levies, development fees handle expansion of infrastructure.
Anything after that is waste. You cannot create a job simply to pay someone off and expect a positive return. You cannot take a productive dollar and hand it off to an unproductive person and expect that dollar to grow. Katrina is the single biggest example of what should have been a major economic boon turned into a fiasco. A poor underdeveloped area was wiped out. The job opportunities to rebuild that region are staggering, in and of itself could easily lead that area out of an economic downturn. But wait, let's not get carried away, the Government needs to jump in and divert productive monies into wasteful irrelevant programs.
I was laid off in 91 from a 55k per year job. In 91 at my age, that was good money. I worked 3 part time jobs after that, gal I worked with went on welfare.
Over the following 2 years she plopped out 2 more kids, her 14 year old had a kid, and kept drawing welfare. I worked. I ended up starting a business, and Closed it due to the taxes I owed exceeded the income I could draw for my own efforts.
I worked, got penalized. She squirted kids and reaped the benefits. I have no sympathy, absolutely no support of the tax system as it stands. I could have employed myself and 1 other person, in a recession, yet the tax burden alone told me it was simply not worth working that hard to pay for someone else. You will never convince me differently.
The problem isn't the corporations paying their fair share. The problem is some lazy morons think someone else, like me, Owes them what I earned. Those aren't my kids, I never played in her sand box. I find it wholly Appalling that I paid while she sat, My wife and family went without because I refused to look to someone else.
You complain about some corp making a profit like it has anything what so ever to do with your existence.
The "problem" is people expect far more than they even remotely deserve, and more and more people are buying into it.
Get this, at some point, you that support these concepts are going to have to accept Your lives being defined by someone else. You will Not Like This. Quit asking for it.
You are being led around like stupid sheep with feel good sound bites.
There are wolves waiting for you, better open your eyes. Those wolves are hoping beyond hope that you really buy into the evil corporate empire line. Geez people, I know you are smarter than this.
Come on. I've hear people saying they are canceling their vacations because of the cost of fuel.
700 Mile trip is $28.00 more today than it was in 2005. Same trip I make twice a year, every year. So Friggin What! Chump change for crying out loud. You would still have made the trip. 28 bucks?? Honestly?
Now you are honestly concerned, and buying into the national tragedy of the evil empire over chump change? Guess what they do with that money. Spend it, buying stuff someone else makes, Save it, making money available for loans that support, say, your car loan perhaps.. Credit card.. You guys better be careful what you ask for, you are liable to get it.
