Big Oil uses fake “Americans” to attack fake “energy taxes”
source: http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/11/big-oil-uses-fake-americans-to-attack-fake-energy-taxe...
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"Congress will likely consider new taxes on America’s oil and natural gas industry. These new energy taxes will produce wide-reaching effects, and ripple through our economy when America — and Americans — can least afford it.
"These unprecedented taxes will serve to reduce investment in new energy supplies at a time when most Americans support developing our domestic oil and natural gas resources. That means less energy, thousands of American jobs being lost and further erosion of our energy security.
"Our economy is in crisis, and we need to get the nation on the road to economic recovery. This is no time to burden Americans with new energy costs."
The target of this ad is the Obama administration’s effort to remove $36 billion in loopholes and subsidies for the oil industry. As it turns out, the “Americans” presented in the ad are stock photos from Getty Images:
“Warehouse worker holding large wrench on shoulder”
“Woman working in a distribution warehouse”
“Man standing with hands in pocket”
“Blue collar worker leaning against forklift.”
Americans are paying the price for these subsidies with our tax dollars, our health, and our national security. Removing these subsidies would “ripple through the economy” by unleashing a clean-energy future.
This is just the latest in a stream of polluter front groups using stock photos in Astroturf campaigns against clean energy policy. API was recently caught trying to add diversity to its dirty ads by photoshopping minorities into stock photography. West Virginia’s “FACES of Coal” turned out to be from iStockPhoto.com. And Virginia’s “Coalition for American Jobs” is a stock-photo front group for the American Chemistry Council.
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New taxes are coming in one way or another. Everyone screams bloody murder over the debt and deficit spending but oppose new taxes. You cannot cut enough government jobs to balance the budget. We can cut defense spending but thats not going to happen anytime soon so get ready for a slew of new taxes. Pay now or pay later but the price keeps rising every day. We have this attitude is the United States that taxes are bad. We are the least taxed industrialized nation on earth. Fuel taxes are coming a value added tax is coming and when congress gets some balls income tax is going up for the uber wealthy, the rich and the upper middle class with only modest increases on the middle class. That how we as a nation will come to grips with deficits. The only way. I don't like paying taxes anymore than anyone else but the reality is clear.
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tommic
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Subsidies go against the grain of capitalism, Big oil, agri businesses, take away the subsidies and let the American people know the real cost. Then there would be action. Its a false front of deception, people think that they pay a prevailing market price for a product but in reality they pay far less than they should. Its perversion of capitalism to support industry instead of the people themselves.
If you can't see it and understand it you are truely in the dark.
Emerging companies that offer real products or ideas still in an infant stage deserve support from the government far more than existing companies making billions in profits every year while on the government dole for money.
Common sense not rocket science. - 2 years ago
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