...the first sign this bill isn't about fairness is that taxes are raised only on "oil companies with gross receipts in excess of $1 billion in a taxable year and an average daily worldwide production of crude oil of at least 500,000 barrels a year." In other words, this bill would create one set of tax laws for most oil companies, and another set for Exxon, Chevron, Conoco, Shell and BP.
And most of the tax changes amount to straightforward discrimination against these companies.
The biggest tax break benefiting the oil industry is the domestic production tax credit. As far as subsidies in the tax code, this one is fairly broad. You get this tax break if you manufacture anything in the United States, or harvest timber, grow crops, mine for coal -- or pull oil or gas out of the ground. Obama and congressional Democrats haven't proposed a repeal of the domestic production tax credit (which would actually advance tax neutrality). They're instead fighting to exclude the big five oil companies from it. Coal companies would still get this subsidy under the Democrats' proposals, as would oil companies producing no more than 499,999 barrels a year.
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No, they mean that during a financial crisis where EVERY OTHER sector of society is forced to tighten their belts Big Oil should take a hit as well. It's not that difficult to understand.
Read for meaning, Anony.
NO other company will lose the credit. Only 5 oil companies will lose the credit.
By the way, did the FedGov 'take a hit'? States? Locals?
"Read for meaning, Anony.
NO other company will lose the credit. Only 5 oil companies will lose the credit."
Yes, I read for meaning. The bigger they are, the more they have to contribute. You call it socialism when it rubs up on your peeter; the rest of us call it joint sacrifice.
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