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Old 05-11-11, 11:29 AM   #3
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For some reason the link keeps coming up as a blank page, so I can't comment directly. I will comment on a statement of yours though:
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Originally Posted by gimpy117 View Post
Why are we habding money to these companies who clearly don't need any more help, and who have not shown any progress to keeping prices down for the american consumer?
While with all the information I might actually agree that perhaps certain corporations need to be watched, you're falling into your old fallacy. A tax break is not handing money to anyone. It's taking less of their money, which is not the same thing. The purpose of taxation is not to punish anyone, or to help anyone. The sole purpose of taxation is that governments by their nature cannot generate revenues. Taxes are necessary for the government to run, and using them for anything else is political and moral engineering.
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