Wed 16 Jun, 2010
This is one of the guys who own you.
And their slaves have responded:
The oil and gas industry measure by Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, failed to muster even a simple 51-vote majority, although 60 votes were needed to pass it.
It was offered as an amendment to a bill that would extend unemployment insurance for hundreds of thousands of jobless workers whose benefits ran out last month and also renew a set of popular business tax breaks.
The bill faces a key procedural vote on Wednesday, but it appears doubtful that Democratic leaders will be able to muster the 60 votes needed to advance the bill to a final vote.
Only 35 senators backed the Sanders’ amendment as a number of Democrats joined the Republican opposition to defeat it.
Sanders argued that big oil companies making billions in profits do not deserve the tax breaks at a time when the nation is facing record budget deficits and rising debt.
“With a record-breaking $13 trillion national debt and an unsustainable federal deficit, the last thing we should be doing is giving tax breaks to oil and gas companies that have been making enormous profits,” Sanders said.
Opponents argued that removing the breaks for oil and gas drilling would hurt small producers as well as big oil companies.
Sure, our government could take that 35 billion dollars and give it to the people who’ve gotten fucked over in the BP oil spill, but we can’t have them getting rich off of taxpayer money. I mean, who the fuck do they think they are? Oil companies?
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