I was listening to a guy named Steven Moore from the Wall Street Journal yesterday talking about Waxman's upcoming hearings on "price gouging" by the oil companies. (Since in the past the guy has drawn the ire of Mediamatters.com, it'sa sure bet that he knows what he's talking about.) Moore claims that for the first quarter of '08 Exxon paid more taxes than any company in U.S. history has paid for the same period of time. Then he added that during that same quarter Exxon paid more in taxes than over than 50% of Americans paid.
Can't wait for Henry Waxman's upcoming dog and pony show calling the oil executives in. Seems like this twit never misses an opportunity to make an ass of himself.
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