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Coming off the heels of a similar and smaller proposal by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama today announced a plan to tax Oil company profits.
According to Bloomberg.com, “the plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the proposal. The tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned- income tax credit and assistance for people who can’t afford their energy bills.”
Does Barack Obama not understand business and economics? What makes Barack (or Hillary for that matter) think that this is going to provide any benefit to we “little” people? When you tax a company that provides goods or services, all the company does is increases the prices to cover the new tax. In other words, “working families” (whom Barack is apparently most concerned about, will end up paying the tax on the oil companies.
The disappointing thing is, Barack and Hillary know and understand this reality. But they are also politicians and they know that the average voter is, well let’s say, uninformed. Joe Schmoe on the street will read a headline like the one for this article and say to themselves, “hey, that’s a good idea. Yeah let’s stick it to the oil companies!”, then they will go on their way, fail to think another thought about what they just read and continue to ignore issues of actual importance.
It was Winston Churchill who said, “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” That is no more true than in this instance.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates
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LobbyDelegates.com Lets Ordinary Voices Be Heard
The unconstrained votes of some 800 top Democratic Party officials, known as Super Delegates, now matter even more following the Pennsylvania Primary, which continued to leave both Presidential candidates short of the 2,024 primary-pledged delegates needed to secure the nomination.
Those believing these Party insiders (who include governors, mayors, state and Congressional lawmakers) should be more accountable to rank-and-file Democrats, can now have their voices heard through www.LobbyDelegates.com. This one-stop portal is the first and only one empowering grassroots Democrats to directly communicate with their state’s Super Delegates – via email, fax or postal letters.
LobbyDelegates.com maintains lists of Super Delegates who have endorsed Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or are still uncommitted. Users can, with one click, target all uncommitted Super Delegates and urge them to publicly endorse a certain candidate, or remain uncommitted. Users can similarly lobby Super Delegates to keep an existing commitment, or switch to the other candidate.
Although Sen. Obama leads with 1,490 pledged delegates to 1,336 for Sen. Clinton, neither would attain 2,024 even if one or the other won two-thirds of the remaining primary delegates. While Clinton leads among Super Delegates, 259 to 235, Obama has narrowed this gap steadily over the past six weeks. Over 300 Super Delegates remain uncommitted.
The LobbyDelegates.com website is strictly independent, and is not aligned with any political party, candidate, campaign or advocacy group. LobbyDelegates.com was created as a public service under the auspices of the nonprofit StateDemocracy Foundation, whose similar civic engagement website, www.StateDemocracy.com, is dedicated to delivering democracy to your desktop by connecting citizens and lawmakers.
Thousands have visited LobbyDelegates.com since it was launched on April 3. Since then, the website has been upgraded by adding a blog, the ability to invite friends, and free email delivery.