EXXON profits up 55% - Democratic Underground

dmosh42

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Thu Oct-28-10 12:59 PM
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EXXON profits up 55%

Source: AP

This makes me so happy that we didn't end the depletion allowances (16 billion taxpayer dollars), so they can have some really fat bonuses this Xmas!

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101028/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_exxon_mobil

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aquart

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Thu Oct-28-10 01:28 PM
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1. They seem to be insufficiently taxed.

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herbm

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Thu Oct-28-10 03:34 PM
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2. Absolutly. Where are the windfall taxes? A contribution to the so far failed BP cleanup? Why didn't

big oil pay for the Detroit bailout?

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HCE SuiGeneris

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Thu Oct-28-10 03:57 PM
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3. Who is funding their windfall?

Oh yeah, that would be the peons commuting to work and job hunting.

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