With Tax Day now behind us, this Mother Jones article about the billions in taxpayer dollars we give away to Big Oil every year ought to get your blood boiling: Over the past century, the federal government has pumped more than $470 billion into the oil and gas industry in the form of generous, never-expiring tax breaks. Once intended to jump-start struggling domestic drillers, these incentives have become a tidy bonus for some of the worlds most profitable companies.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:00:07 +0000
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