Comments | the_recession: Exxon made $19 billion in profit and got a $150 million tax rebate in 2009

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Exxon made $19 billion in profit and got a $150 million tax rebate in 2009

May 16, 2011 22:25

by Gaius Publius on 5/16/2011 09:05:00 PM

We've been on this for a while, these extractive industry profits, but this Rachel Maddow segment makes it all so clear. We give them the store so they can sell it back to us.

"The U.S. government currently hands out $4 billion dollars per year in subsidies" to the most profitable corporations in the ( Read more... )

austerity measures, washington, corporate profits, oil, gop, 'capitalism', corporate welfare

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badnewswade May 17 2011, 18:48:55 UTC

Well, what are you gonna do about it? Try changing things, even a tiny bit like Obama, and all the pinheads come out and scream "COMMIE!!!" at you.

Fuck it, I'm glad those ignorant, racist morons are all being bled dry by corporations. They have well and truly got the government they deserve.