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Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 08:26 AM Feb 2012

OH Dear, Obama is discriminating against the Oil Company--He wants to end their Handout.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/24/432059/oil-lobby-says-obamas-call-to-end-big-oil-handouts-is-discriminatory/


The oil lobby American Petroleum Institute weighed in on President Obama’s corporate tax reform that closes an array of tax loopholes, including $4 billion in subsidies for the oil industry. Not surprisingly, API is unhappy. API President Jack Gerard played victim, calling the plan “discriminatory” against an industry that “receives not one subsidy”:

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OH Dear, Obama is discriminating against the Oil Company--He wants to end their Handout. (Original Post) Justice wanted Feb 2012 OP
Well then, I guess API won't mind giving up something that doesn't exist, right? DCKit Feb 2012 #1
He's probably right GP6971 Feb 2012 #2
You'd think those republicans would B Calm Feb 2012 #3
K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2012 #4
 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
1. Well then, I guess API won't mind giving up something that doesn't exist, right?
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 09:19 AM
Feb 2012

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

GP6971

(31,141 posts)
2. He's probably right
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 10:46 AM
Feb 2012

About "receives not one subsidy"........it' more like they receive multiple subsidies

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