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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:12 AM Apr 2016

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[NEWS RELEASE] BP clinches Deepwater Horizon tax break...

ASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Louisiana finalized a $20 billion civil settlement between BP, the Justice Department, and the five states of the Gulf Coast. Despite protests from both Congress and a broad coalition of environmental groups, the final settlement will allow BP to deduct a majority of the costs as an ordinary business expense.

Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Campaigner Lukas Ross issued the following statement in response:

We are saddened to learn that the gross negligence of BP continues to enjoy taxpayer subsidies. Treating the worst oil spill in U.S. history as an ordinary and necessary business expense boggles the mind. Nearly six years to the day since this tragedy began to unfold, it is clear that we have still failed to learn all the lessons of the Deepwater Horizon.

http://www.foe.org/news/archives/2016-04-bp-clinches-deepwater-horizon-tax-break#sthash.VqxMLFEm.dpuf

Bernie Sanders ?@BernieSanders 15h15 hours ago
Bernie Sanders Retweeted Friends of the Earth
Making the American taxpayer pick up BP's bill for cleaning the disastrous Deepwater Horizon spill is an outrage.

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[NEWS RELEASE] BP clinches Deepwater Horizon tax break... (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2016 OP

No wonder the ratfuckers are picking up steam lately. djean111 Apr 2016 #1

K&R for exposure. JEB Apr 2016 #2

Never forget. CrispyQ Apr 2016 #3

NEVER. Never forget the suffering of the innocent. navarth Apr 2016 #7

Privatize the profits, socialize the risk. jalan48 Apr 2016 #4

^^^this^^^ ViseGrip Apr 2016 #5

+10000000000 navarth Apr 2016 #8

The real face of welfare. Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #6

and here the cultists were saying the Gulf was dirty already MisterP Apr 2016 #9

It's only fair. Octafish Apr 2016 #10

Outrageous! This is Bull SHIT eom LittleGirl Apr 2016 #11

Of course we'll pay for BP screw-ups packman Apr 2016 #12

The system works. chapdrum Apr 2016 #13

BP said it was sorry - really, really sorry gratuitous Apr 2016 #14

All they had to do was grease the right palms. lpbk2713 Apr 2016 #15

WE GET TO PAY FOR THIS SHRED Apr 2016 #16

Nobody went to prison for this, either. Volaris Apr 2016 #19

Tax deductible 'business' expense my ass. Volaris Apr 2016 #17

BP.... We're Sorry Multichromatic Apr 2016 #18

How can anyone support the status quo candidate? Scuba Apr 2016 #20

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. No wonder the ratfuckers are picking up steam lately.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:16 AM

Apr 2016

No, one man cannot fix everything. But at least he knows what is wrong and what needs to be fixed - and is not complicit and enabling.

JEB

(4,748 posts)

2. K&R for exposure.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:24 AM

Apr 2016

CrispyQ

(36,506 posts)

3. Never forget.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:29 AM

Apr 2016

navarth

(5,927 posts)

7. NEVER. Never forget the suffering of the innocent.

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:44 PM

Apr 2016

Punish these bastards. This judge is a scum bag.

jalan48

(13,882 posts)

4. Privatize the profits, socialize the risk.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:44 AM

Apr 2016

This is the kind of Socialism that the big corporations like. I can't wait for the TPP to kick in, feudalism was kind of romantic wan't it?

ViseGrip

(3,133 posts)

5. ^^^this^^^

Reply to jalan48 (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 11:53 AM

Apr 2016

This is why we need Sanders...to better balance cost effective needs. Then you won't see shit like this.

navarth

(5,927 posts)

8. +10000000000

Reply to ViseGrip (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:45 PM

Apr 2016

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)

6. The real face of welfare.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:41 PM

Apr 2016

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

9. and here the cultists were saying the Gulf was dirty already

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:45 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x326458
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x337445
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x346686

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

10. It's only fair.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:00 PM

Apr 2016

First We the People get to pick up the bill for all the Warmongers.

Then, We the People get to pick up the bill for all the Banksters.

Of course now, We the People get to pick up the tab for the Oil Company that destroyed the Gulf. Of Mexico, not the oil company.

What's different now is that We the People know what they do with the money they steal from us.

LittleGirl

(8,291 posts)

11. Outrageous! This is Bull SHIT eom

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:10 PM

Apr 2016

packman

(16,296 posts)

12. Of course we'll pay for BP screw-ups

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:11 PM

Apr 2016

chapdrum

(930 posts)

13. The system works.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:27 PM

Apr 2016

No matter the horrific environmental depradation, the lost livelihoods, etc.

What matters is that "they" take care of their own, and that the convenient sleepwalking known as business as usual continue undisturbed in its bliss.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

14. BP said it was sorry - really, really sorry

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:31 PM

Apr 2016

God, you libruls are just never satisfied, are you? Hasn't BP suffered enough? Must they pay and pay for their honest mistakes, mistakes that any one of you could have made? Sure a bunch of guys got killed, and an ecosystem was made uninhabitable for a while, and may never recover. But Tony Hayward just wants his life back, and you hard-hearted bastards just can't let it go. Can't we all just pitch in and help out? And by "all," BP means you.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)

15. All they had to do was grease the right palms.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:33 PM

Apr 2016

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

16. WE GET TO PAY FOR THIS

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:34 PM

Apr 2016

FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

19. Nobody went to prison for this, either.

Reply to SHRED (Reply #16)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:06 PM

Apr 2016

We should ALL write our CongressCretins and ask them what they think. When we get the usual platitudes back (as I'm sure I will as McCaskill is my Senator) our response should be

Yeah...and THAT'S why I'm voting for Bernie.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

17. Tax deductible 'business' expense my ass.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:01 PM

Apr 2016

Rage. That is all.

Go BERNIE, GO!

Multichromatic

(14 posts)

18. BP.... We're Sorry

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:05 PM

Apr 2016

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Scuba

(53,475 posts)

20. How can anyone support the status quo candidate?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 07:01 AM

Apr 2016

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