Republican Party Refuses To Tax Oil Companies, McCain To “Veto Every Single Beer”

The Republican party once again showed complete disregard for Americans by refusing to pass a tax on windfalls by oil companies. The proposed 25% tax on excessive profits by oil companies might have given them an incentive to do something about the current situation, yet Republicans argued that Americans shouldn’t punish oil companies for getting filthy rich while they struggle to afford skyrocketing fuel costs and sell off their SUV’s and pickup trucks.

I intend to vote for Ron Paul in the fall in any case, because he represents the values that I think are best for all Americans, but I will never even consider another Republican candidate from this point on. From here on out, I’ll not ever vote Republican again (which I haven’t done in quite some time anyway), since the Republican party has shown itself incapable of intelligent leadership or effective warfighting, and has shown that it has no desire to secure our borders, deal with illegal immigration, raise wages, nor stand up to corporations.

Speaking of Congressman Paul, he wrote an article blasting the federal government for not doing anything to address the issue and for being responsible for high gas prices in the first place: Big Government Responsible for High Gas Prices, by Dr. Ron Paul.

All of our politicians but the tiniest handful are morally decrepit, and have been for a long time. It’s past time Americans stop lying to themselves. Both major parties are running this country into the ground and getting rich off special interest money. Today, an article pointed out just how special interest groups have plenty of access to both Obama and McCain. Nothing will change with the next President.

Everyone who is sick of rising fuel costs, our Congress spending over $1 billion every day, trade practices that hurt American companies, catering to Arab oil producers and the myriad other problems our nation faces should vote for Ron Paul this November. Even as a write-in if need be.

If we want to change America and save it from a path of ruination and self-destruction, he is the only candidate that will do so.

Take a look at all of these taxes that did not exist in America 100 years ago, when our nation was the most prosperous nation on Earth. This is what special interests, profiteering corporations and crooked politicians have done to fatten their pockets, all the while refusing to raise wages or tax those profiting off the hardships the average American faces.

See a list of the sorts of taxes that did not exist 100 years ago: Hello, I’m from the IRS and I’ll be screwing you over today

[Note: It was brought to my attention that the list which I originally included, and which came from an unattributed email was actually part of a post on the Peoria Pundit blog---hence the removal of the list and the link to that blog and the original post with that list instead. I will have to be more thorough in verifying sources. Thanks to the reader who kept me on my toes.]

Is it any wonder that some 37 million Americans live below the poverty line?

And then our leaders have the gall to refuse to tax oil corporations making billions of dollars of profits while you have a hard time making ends meet and just getting back and forth to work and the grocery store.

All the while, they refuse to secure our borders against illegal immigration, wasting EVEN MORE American tax dollars and giving away jobs to those illegal immigrants who will make these crooked politicians and their special interest lobbies even richer.

The founders of our nation revolted because they had taxation without representation. If politicians are not working for We the People, if they are not doing what is in OUR best interest instead of corporations and lobbies, if those politicians ignore the voice of the American people, if those politicians seek to lie to us and deceive us…then we DO NOT HAVE ANY REPRESENTATION.

What could one possibly dump in a harbor this time around, though?

McCain said he would “…veto every single beer…” and since I like beer, I am all for tossing him in a harbor. Wonder if that’s some kind of radical moral view slipping out that we can expect to see more of if he were to get elected? Hmm…

Ron Paul will be holding a convention of his own during the Republican National Convention in Minnesota on September 2 at the Univ. of Minnesota’s Williams Arena. I urge everyone who is sick of the direction our nation has taken to attend if they can, and to vote for him this fall in the Presidential election.

Just remember all summer long as you read those articles about how to beat high gas prices or cheap vacation alternatives—or as you place an ad in the local newspaper for your SUV that lost half its value in the past 6 months—that those who chose to do nothing on your behalf are the Republicans. That’s not to say there aren’t a lot of morally decrepit Democrats (there are), just that in this one instance, it is the Republican party that wants you to continue feeling the pains of high fuel costs.