Reply #5: Well, $500 billion of taxpayer money [View All]

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The taxpayers have shelled out over $500 billion to wage a couple of wars so that the oil companies could post record quarterly profits; it seems only fair that the oil companies should now be tapped to pay back some of that largesse. Naturally some of their apologists will squeal like stuck pigs (for pigs they are) that the Democrats are restraining the free markets, and it's the God-given right of oil companies to make obscene profits while letting their pipelines go to pot.