Earlier in the week, some commenters here likened government subsidies and grants to business are no different than welfare programs for people. In the news yesterday, President Obama repeated his call for an end to $4 billion in oil industry tax breaks as gas prices approach $4 a gallon and after a top lawmaker indicated a possible shift in Republican policy. John Boehner said regarding his opposition to ditch the tax breaks “I don’t think the big oil companies need to have the oil depletion allowances, but for small, independent oil and gas producers, if they didn’t have this, there’d be even less exploration in America than there is today,” Boehner said on ABC’s World News Tonight. “It’s certainly something we need to be looking at.”
Source: cnn.com
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Heard the City needs to raise taxes 5 cents, sewer rates 3 to 4 %, and water rates 5%. Anyone else hear this? Maybe its an Abbott and Costello initiative. Or Bonnie and Clyde.
The White House today has released President Obama’s original birth certificate. Will this satisfy those who content he is not eligible for President by being born outside of the States? The certificate can be found here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/27/white-house-releases-obama-birth-certificate/
I had wanted to see this, just because I was curious, but really people, by the time Obama could have been impeached if it showed another country, it would be all the same. I don’t know anymore who or what is good for this country.
There will always going be people who will question it, just like there are people who question alot of things and are never satisfied..
Considering all the circumstances, it was understandable that some people would wonder about it.
It should have been released long ago.
but there are more important issues to deal with.
Move on.