White House opposes oil donations to heating fund (opposes a Rep proposal)

This voluntary contribution business implies that the oil companies are taking advantage of people and should be taxed in punishment, when all they are doing is working God's will by extracting money from the undeserving poor and redistributing it upward to the wealthy, who are indeed the Chosen of God. Republicans who don't understand this are hardly better than godless Liberals.

SO IT IS WRITTEN ------- SO IT WILL BE DONE

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the salvation army, the red cross, united way, etc...

case closed

thinking making a voluntary request of a donation is going to result in any donations (and pretending that one has done something policy-wise to help those who are at greatest-risk) from obscene levels of windfall profits...

or

opposing a request for voluntary donations?

Geez.

"The Little Match Girl"

typical large corporation pays an effective tax of about one-half the corporate tax rate. The extra hundreds of dollars many will pay monthly to heat their homes that ends up as profits to energy companies won't feel a bit like it were an extra tax put on them by this Administration. :sarcasm:

in the first place is similar to a tax, which the administration would oppose us paying.

Oh wait, we are the people, so we don't count.

We pay the taxes. Corporations reap the profits.

He said he could not understand how a President of the United States could oppose encouraging charitable deductions by the oil companies in light of their record profits from prices that affect consumers since we have a public policy to make sure consumers can afford heating fuel

I won't even ask if this administration realizes that this is as much of a threat as any terror attack or national disaster to those on fixed incomes, the disabled, the poor and to children. People will die this winter, if they have no heat and I already know people who have not been able to put oil in their tanks. They are lucky so far that the temperature in the NE has been fairly mild, so far.

And for what, so that the greedy, gluttonous war profiteers don't have to contribute anything to this country?

If this is capitalism, it isn't working for the people ~ and maybe its time to get some legislation that ensures that life-saving commodities, like heating oil, gas, water etc. are not denied to those who are the most vulnerable. That will be the end result of their gross policies.

freeze to death this winter," said the compassionate conservative pResident.

Sound the alarm!!!

King George refuses to share the wealth!!!

It all for him and his friends.

Oh really? But it was ok for Bush to urge us regular joes to give voluntary contributions to the Red Cross and Salvation Army following Katrina. Nobody mentioned anything about those contributions being "similar to a tax".

God forbid the oil companies would have to part with a freaking nickel of their gargantuan profits, especially since they're all set to collect even more tax breaks after the Energy bill passed.

This is an outrage! What an 'up yours' moment: The White House opposes fat-cat oil company cronies voluntarily contributing 10% of windfall record profits to a heating fund for the poor!!

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who didn't vote for Bush will die this winter because they can't pay their heating bills. That should solve all the problems.

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