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Windfalling for you
Did McCain switch positions on windfall profits tax? |
Kate Sheppard |
18 Jun 2008 |
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| John McCain on a windfall profits tax, in his speech on energy policy delivered in Houston yesterday: So what does Senator Obama support in energy policy? Well, for starters he supported the energy bill of 2005 -- a grab-bag of corporate favors that I opposed. And now he supports new taxes on energy producers. He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas. If the plan sounds familiar, it's because tha ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, elections, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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