Exxon Mobil paid no federal income tax in 2009

Well that's just plain SAD. You mean you don't hold one a these plastic devices in your sweating open pores hands all day long? What's da matta wit' you man? Have you gone CRAZY? No wait, immediately call the closest doctor you can find and demand an infusion of meds. You gots to join us!

You need triage medical attention STAT. I'm entering you into therapy. Once the shrink finds out you climbed up on the roof -at your age- to install a defiant wind-harnessing device... we'll do what we can but it looks like prison time. I bet you used to watch To Catch a Thief with {ugh} Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert and had dreams of running on top of people's roofs.

No, wait, your age, that would be Cary Grant. THAT'S IT. I nailed Storm. Everybody, Walks in Storms thinks he's Cary Grant! Don't listen to him; he's gone AWOL. Storm is a renegade. Bush told us to beware of people not spending money! Delusions of Grandeur and blatant unchecked Megalomania has befallen our one-time flash in a pan friend.

Cary Grant and you in a room, one real man there and one wannabee man. hahahaha Who installs imitation wind systems on his roof to impress passers by (and women!). I know... they call you... *the peacock* waltzing up and down ladders to show off your bulging muscles, wag a little tail feathers. The old dog did learn new tricks!

You wear a better hat than Grant, I'll grant ya that. hehehehe
You teenager you. You need to remake Muscle Beach.

No. You would be breaking even more laws. Advertising without a proper advertiser license, property not zoned for a business OR for advertising. And then they'll lower the boom, that you were supposed to comply with the law and put a big sheet around your construction, and also a sound barrier to save neighbors and people driving by from having to hear your hammer & cordless drill. Causes wrecks and also causes people to stumble and fall.

You're up against a terrific foe who will soon stop you, make you put up the barriers and dismantle it.

Apparently for some people it's the only job mold they can fit in. If they were paid another $100.00 a month they'd likely quit, and really work for us, no kiddin'. Here's an interesting thought => take a few hundred thousand or $50,000,000 from the next election donations and pay all the IRS people not to work, an interesting situation indeed.

There isn't any law against doing that. Pay them to assemble windmill parts for home-size windmills. Or help a disabled neighbor with household chores. Empty their IRS desk right immediately before April 15 not leaving any time to train new-hires.

Too late for this year though. Sorry. Bum thyroid ya know. Always late for everything.

sshhh, you'll give away the secret plan.

I haven't quite tagged if you are just joking or if you are serious.

I keep expecting Ashton Kutcher to jump out from behind your posts. :)

It does seem like that is the case. We seem to be developing the very monarchy that was thrown out in 1776. There is hope however. American people have never liked any kind of monarchy and we are getting rather sick of the elitists.

or j jammer.

I think I have to disagree with you on the oil companies stopping the electric car. Maybe they have by siphoning so much money out at the pumps, that way, but direct action I dunno. Americans have gotten softer than a soft-belly crab. We can build our own car in our own yards or garage any time we want to. The finished car has to pass inspection is all.

In 2003 I stumbled across a nitrogen-powered car that ran upwards of 30 mph in 1997. It got us half way off crude oil.gasoline 13 years ago. All it needed was some steam added ahead of the compressed air, which I showed how to do on a website. Being disabled, no money, no credit, I wasn't able to build one but, I thought SURELY if I write about it some young high school boys would take the initiative and build it in auto shop class.

Obviously I miscalculated and over-estimated. The 1950's are gone. Kids today got pulled into the electronics whirlpool. Exxon hasn't killed anything. You can have a fuel-free car that even makes its own "combination fuel" while driving down the highway just any time you want.

My engine went undesigned til early 2008. At that time I had some insights into how to build it. It's an advanced turbocharger. Very few moving parts. A plumber could build it. The pistons shove fluid into the vanes then return for more liquid by having flaps on the inner side of the pistons that operate like a mechanical heart valve.

All 3-5 pistons fire simultaneously, giving a tremendous horsepower boost. I estimate my engine clashing the different temperature liquids together in a tornado-level explosion would produce between 1300-1900% the horsepower of a combustion engine, no pollutants, not even any exhaust =>

No radiator.
No antifreeze.
No tailpipe/muffler.
No hoses to break on trips.
No cooling system (balances out).
And so on and so forth no poisonous catalytic converter.
And since there's no combustion & a closed engine the oil lasts 100 years.

And there it sits. Did Exxon make us lazy? Nope.

I shouldn't wax that judgemental. We all got too sick to work on cars is what happened I reckon. The amount of oxygen in the world's atmosphere is reduced from 1950's 2.5 billion people and the livestock breathes up a lot more to keep us fed. That's a lot why we fall ill at every airborne germ organism floats along.

Sick people don't have fun in the backyard building a car or an engine. Nor do people who have had all their money stolen at a gas pump.

Liquid air & steam don't have to be mined, drilled, tanked around as mobile high explosive terrorist targets, doesn't have to be imported ~ it's already everywhere, doesn't get burned or fouled so it is recycled forever inside the engine round and round she goes, from compression to cylinder-explosion decompression, from steam to water condensate back to steam.

No need for tank farms to distill it, process it and leak into the nation's (world's) ground water table. Doesn't poison the fish => they love water, good clean wonderful no-petrol spills water. Water you could almost drink from the engine it runs so clean (zero combustion).

The engine of the future available today. Frees up monies to buy new homes, feed the family correctly, pay doctors for services rendered in CASH, cold hard cash, again.

Freedom from economic slavery.

Live the life of Tarzan, walk tall like Buford Pusser, make love like Jane, breathe clean air this world had 60-90-120 years ago, fight off diseases like they're nothing. Run for miles without getting winded. Have so much health your immune system immediately recognizes a cancer, surrounds it, contains it, deletes it no, uses the cancer cells for nourishment.

Tuna stampedes in the ocean. Ocean perch weighing 20 pounds jumping and fighting the line like tuna used to.

Ask the question, but answer it not by the old standards that were based on national levels. Ask it on the international level. Where is their money going overseas? What projects are America's Rich having built overseas where the costs are much lower?

What orange are they squeezing? Is it going to benefit the majority of Americans who are being squeezed like grapes to pay for?

Americans are defrauded, abused and slimed saps.

After the first five million the game changes and for some it is befor that level. Money buys power over your fellow man. Power corupts and absolut power corrupts absolutly.

Here!, Here! I'm tired of putting up with Gravity and I'm not going to take it anymore! Give me a weighted anemometer spinning fast enough and I'll show you a UFO.

Oops.

Anyway, Tesla had a better system. He used a repulsion drive.

April 15 speech time coming up Obama. Tell these people what you know.

You don't want me to take your bows.

Exxon is not the only company doing this sort of thing.

Mouths of babes! In Walks Storm => "corporations who rule here since the 1948-52" and looky who is stuck right in the middle => 1949. Thank ya for that man, Thank You.

A.J.! Glad ta see ya man! We're fixing to drill 80 feet into the asteroid to blow it today, 4/08/10.

YepYep, going for the Gold all day long. It's already 4/5 built anyway. I had to take a detour last week. My thyroid went completely dead, no hormone output, so he got me some Synthroid, took a few days to get used to it plus the bp med.

4/08/10 man, a juicy a meatball. Glad to hear of your continued success as an old, decrepit white male damaged from birth being white. We shall overcome one day! Later.

Like I said walk I don't like paying them any more than you and I had my battles with the IRS too. It just so happens my brother is one of the formost tax attorneys in the United States who reads all 65,000 pages every year then writes updates for his publication which is in every tax accountants office and law office in the United States. You can google Martin J McMahon and see for yourself. Taxes and the tax code are indeed really f'd up thats a fact. But unfortunatly I prefer to stay out of their sights and out of jail so I actually do not take every deduction ( some throw up red flags) and end up paying a little more than I should. Man I understand your anger at the gov. I follow you and your history from CIA experiments to IRS problems and while I do not always agree with you I do feel the compassion a man like you deserves. Once your on a government hit list it stays forever. Try to find peace inside yourself as a man who trained in martial arts you should know this. Peace to you

The one I really don't take anymore is office in home with the deduction and a percentage of utilities. Otherwise I take every legal one I can. Even my brother acknowledges the system is screwed up, he does not make the laws he just interperts them so the average accountant and layman lawyer can understand the complexities.
The tax laws should be made much simpler, but I am really one who believes in very high tariff taxes. Since we let the third world nations have their own industrial ages by shipping manufacturing to them the least we should do is recoup the monies lost. Its not protectionism when you look at it that way.

fact

why do you think obama would do anything about this?

because he's talked about it in the past as something he wants to address.

Actually, they LOVE America, they just don't give a damn about the people.

A flat income tax sounds good, but didn't you read the report that President Reagan asked for on taxes? Not one penny of the Fed Income Tax goes toward paying for any service that Americans use. And before 1947 there was no Fed Income Tax, so how were things paid for back then?

If you really wanted to simplify things then you'd get rid of the Fed Reserve, Taxes, and the entire financial system, which is just a complicated human invention (an illusion).

This is what happens when a rich corporation (and Exxon-Mobil isn't the only one) makes campaign contributions to congressmen. The laws get tweaked in their favor and everyone else is left holding the tab.

if you had said business, you can be rest assured you'd be paying a helluva lot more in taxes than exxon, walmart, ge, etc... that's the sad truth.

As Leona Helmsley one said. "Only little people pay taxes". I guess she was right.

Good points.
The problem is that they get TOO much of a break and they are only paying on what they deposited into a US bank. There are Way Too many loopholes that are Way Too Large. Incentives are good when given in the right measure. Their incentives are obviously Way Too Large.

That has to be dumbest statement I have ever heard. Payouts to stockholders are deductable for corporations. Re investment in the company is deductable. Its only the net profits that are taxed. Can't read can you for if you could you would investigate that before yu made such an assinine remark.

Let me guess... you wanna pay lower taxes too? Idiot.

mega corporations have monopolized most industries leading to record profits while they lay off tens of thousands of their workforce , pay no taxes, and award their executives with bonuses that outweigh what ten average citizens make in their entire lives put together. people have lost their jobs and their retirement funds while these huge corporations rake in billions hand over fist, and you wonder why there is hostility?

My issue is the $100 billion annual tax burden that US citizens have to pay up to support these douche bag companies. Another example of how "trickle down" economics doesn't work.

Do you really need this explained to you? Nothing exists in a vacuum. Those corporations are able to make profits because they utilize the infrastructure of the United States which is paid for by taxes. They utilized the local law enforcement and fire protection. Their employees education was at some point, likely financed with tax dollars. The Department of Defense patrols the seaways and air and protect the shipping lanes. Their trucks drive on paved roads funded by taxes. They receive tax subsidies paid for with our tax dollars. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of benefits they utilize, directly or indirectly that are paid for with MY tax dollars. Get it? If they want to operate in a tax free environment they can go to Somalia where there are no taxes because there is no government.

As far as not taxing them because the government taxes their employees; haven't you heard? Corporations have the same rights as people according to the SCOTUS. To me, this implies they also have the same RESPONSIBILITY as individuals. There is no rationale defense for them not paying their fair share.

Exxon probably has big money invested in hybrids. That way they win in a boycott, by driving the herd back towards their other companies.

no I don't but a boycott could not be bad. Exxon is a pig paid 0 taxes and got the payments reduced by millions for the Exxon/Valdez mess created in ALaska that has never recovered. Actions speak for themselves

An inventor named Pantone tried to start a revolution with his new engine he called the GEET system. He was thrown in jail for 3 years. He explained his engine to a judge out west and the judge ordered him to take drugs to get his mind straight. Pantone refused.

That will happen to you too if you don't be quiet.

so we should be quiet little bitches and take it?

You should get some sleep.