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BP and Shell raided in oil price-rigging investigation
Re: BP and Shell raided in oil price-rigging investigation
by Plantagenet » Mon 20 May 2013, 20:56:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nocar', ' ')taxes that EU-people pay on oil products - ... the tax money does not disappear but ... goes back into the economy.
That money was already in the economy before it was taxed.
Its pretty weak to say taxes are good because they put money into the economy when basic math demonstrates the main effect of taxes is to skim off a sizable amount of the money for the government itself so that less is returned to the economy then was there originally.
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Re: BP and Shell raided in oil price-rigging investigation
by nocar » Tue 21 May 2013, 05:06:59
When you say that the money just goes to strengthen the government, isn't one aspect that more people are employed by the government? In that case it helps unemployment, and everything that the employees spend goes back into the economy.
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Re: BP and Shell raided in oil price-rigging investigation
by Pops » Tue 21 May 2013, 07:26:12
Stay on topic please, start a thread.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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