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Windfall Profits?
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OK, here it comes. Just yesterday I was bitching about nothing to write about and what happens...one flies down the pipe. Profits Of Doom? By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:20 PM PT Profits: Exxon Mobil's first-quarter earnings of $10.9 billion, up 17% from a year earlier, are stirring outrage in Washington. Some are calling such profits "obscene." What a sad lack of understanding of economics. I said it a few times before, I kept hearing these whispers of "Windfall Profit Taxes" being imposed again. I had just started working in the oil industry when Jimmy Peanutbrain tried this back in the early '80's.
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