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Iron Steve Favors Tax Increase
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Originally posted by taxwonk
I wasn't speaking of the use taxes. I was talking about the fact that in order to use Iraq's oil to finance our war against them or continued occpuation of their country we would have to (i) steal the oil from the Iraqi people; (ii) charge current market prices for it, thus putting the US government of acting like a socialist power with respect to state ownership of the resource, but profiting from the world market like a capitalist totalitarian state; (iii) pass part of the profit from that state-run enterprise to a few selected private parties; (iv) prolong our need to stay in Iraq in order to quell the inevitable increase in opposition to our taking their resources; and (v) maintaining order in an incresaingly poorere nation as we siphon off the one truly valuable commodity thier economy has to finance its improvement.
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Okay. Do you want to work up the power point presentation or should I?
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