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Old 10-30-2013, 11:17 PM
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Bush/Cheney pushed a law that prevents Government from looking into the lubricant ingrediants used in fracking. There is ample paperwork of families that were purchased to sign an agreement to never talk about this which sometimes even included pre-teen children (buying their silence?). If anyone isn't worried about this they only have to research China and all the people they are poisoning. Is this Big Government tyranny or Freedom? When I see China has "smog days" where kids get out of school, I know this is Freedom.
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ExxonMobil in 2011 made $27.3 billion in cash payments for income taxes. Chevron paid $17 billion and ConocoPhillips $10.6 billion. And not only were these the highest amounts in absolute terms, when compared with the rest of the 25 most profitable U.S. companies (see our slideshow for the full rundown of who paid what), the trio also had the highest effective tax rates. Exxon’s tax rate was 42.9%, Chevron’s was 48.3% and Conoco’s was 41.5%. That’s even higher than the 35% U.S. federal statutory rate, which is already the highest tax rate among developed nations.


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Liberals don't let the facts get in the way of a good cry. What fun would that be?
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Old 01-13-2014, 07:13 PM
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Jay, just go get stoned and forget about it. Your comments are so disconnected from reality, you might as well just stay high.

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Old 01-14-2014, 10:24 AM
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Liberals don't let the facts get in the way of a good cry. What fun would that be?
You could reduce the need to cry? Especially if/when you didn't cause the problem in the first place?
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