# Senate Republicans block windfall taxes on big oil firms

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**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/senate-republicans-block-windfall-taxes-on-big-oil-firms/49827 "2008-06-10T17:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/senate-republicans-block-windfall-taxes-on-big-oil-firms/49827/12 "2008-06-10T19:48:10Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> All I’m going to say is you people should read the whole oil prices thread and get back to me. We’ve discussed how bad an idea windfall profit taxes are, and they’ve been proven to be wrong by the history of us trying it once before.
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> Also in that great thread is why oil should be 50-60/barrel, and the reasons it’s not. Big oil was not one of them.
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> But that would require the A.D.D. crew to read more than once sentence, and people like anonymity can’t even seem to do that in most threads.

I say it because I \<3 you, Jay… 😉

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