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McCain, Big Oil, & the Price at the Pump

By Robert Justin Lipkin

The oil companies should be required, but whatever it's worth, it still remains only a short-term solution.  What can be done now? What about windfall profit taxes? Or what about rescinding any tax incentives granted to major corporations? This governmental inclination to disproportionately benefit corporations and the wealthy in general must be scrutinized by the rest of Americans, who, in one way or another, must be content to get by.

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).