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now why wans't gasoline dirt cheap ? Because these MFs said "Well we can still get those prices on the open market, so fuck you".
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The US was no.1 has fallen to the world's no 3 exporter of gasoline. That's how you can keep domestic prices up...reduce supply. Prices recently still fell because of a lack of demand but have since come back up as oil has come back up.
Now of course, the US imports over 30% of its crude oil at about 9 million bbls.+/day while exporting what will soon be 1 million bbls./day.
So the US petroleum industry is free to manipulate supply and prices...all they want.
And oh yes, I do envy the rich and very much so.
I envy how it is the rich that get a face to face, private discussion of issues with MY representative in govt..
I envy how they can buy and sell things such as real estate, stocks and bonds etc. hold them for 1 year in long term [sic] income called 'capital gains' whatever they are...and pay about 1/2 the tax rate I do if I pay the highest 1040 income tax rate...NOT called capital gains...whatever that is.
I envy the rich for the equally rich associations they form and with that 'richness' invest on K St. in NW Wash and get often $30 in govt. favors for every $1 I invest.
Oh yes, I envy the rich because they have lots of money and enough to buy all of the above, use that wealth and the extra 20% of 'gains' that isn't taxed to reinvest which makes them exponentially richer yet which they can again multiply even further.
Oh yes, I envy the rich and for many very obvious reason to envy them.
Shall I go on ? Do you need more ?
The USA is a net exporter of oil
https://energy.gov/maps/us-crude-oil-production-surpasses-net-imports
And low capital gains taxes helps everyone who profits from investments, not just the "evil hated" successful class. Why do you communists think that the government deserves our money anyway, is it just that you hate people who are more successful that you so much that you want the government to hurt them
When there is more money in the private sector that money gets invested and grows jobs and the economy, and helps everyone
When the government steals private sector investment money, it hurts job growth and harms everyone, and the money is very often funneled to crony friends of the ruling class, and kickbacks are the name of the game
Move to Venezuela if you hate the successful class that much. Go be with your own kind, where everyone is equal (equally miserable)
The USA is a net exporter of oil
https://energy.gov/maps/us-crude-oil-production-surpasses-net-imports
Come on man, you can do better than this. The US does not export more crude oil that it consumes. It produces more than it imports according to your own link.
And low capital gains taxes helps everyone who profits from investments, not just the "evil hated" successful class. Why do you communists think that the government deserves our money anyway, is it just that you hate people who are more successful that you so much that you want the government to hurt them
Capital gains is achieved on merely buying and selling things which creates no jobs at all and in fact in the case of buying and selling companies, usually reduces jobs due to layoffs. As usual you resort to name calling when what I wrote has nothing whatever to do with communism. Furthermore, I wrote nothing about who deserves or doesn't...the money earned but the tax rate being half what the highest wage earners pay. (when are you going to do your homework rather than all of these knee-jerk responses that are way off point ?
When there is more money in the private sector that money gets invested and grows jobs and the economy, and helps everyone.
Putting more income tax back into the economy by taxing ALL income equally and in fact allowing a reduction in 1040 rate tables, would help create more demand, create jobs and help workers much more than a tax brake for only those that can afford such as I described.
When the government steals private sector investment money, it hurts job growth and harms everyone, and the money is very often funneled to crony friends of the ruling class, and kickbacks are the name of the game
Notice again how taxes are 'stealing' money when of course is another non-sequitur. Exactly another reason to envy the rich as it is they who are the ruling class...the crony capitalist oligarchs who frankly don't give a fuck about 'everyone' or 'job growth.'
Move to Venezuela if you hate the successful class that much. Go be with your own kind, where everyone is equal (equally miserable)
Never wrote at all that I hate the successful. What I truly dislike for all of the above reasons, especially the tax RATE advantages enjoyed by those who are wealthy enough to enjoy a 20% rate making untold millions while the best earners, pay...almost 40% in fed taxes
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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