Oil at $107 barrel

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by yguy

I realize how desperate you are to maintain your justification for sniveling about "corporate welfare" and the like, but tax breaks are not assistance.

Uh, yes - they most certainly are.

Or if it is, the mob is "assisting" people if it reduces protection fees.

Poorly disguised anti-govt invective offered as argument.

The govt is not a "mob" and taxes are not theft.

All they do is ease financial restrictions they themselves put there to begin with.

No......they shift the cost of providing services that the business uses onto the backs of other taxpayers -- thus providing assistance to the business.

Idiot.

[godfry n. glad]

He slept through that part of his econ class.

[Dingfod]

Now this is a switch: Exxon-Mobil helping develop electric cars.

[fragment]

Shouldn't they just roll out all those designs they've been suppressing over the last few decades?

[Dingfod]

The 300 mpg carburetor alone would change the world.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by fragment

Shouldn't they just roll out all those designs they've been suppressing over the last few decades?

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

He slept through that part of his econ class.

He apparently also doesn't realize that the Fed Funds Rate is not how mortgage interest rates are set.

Mortgage rates are set by the rate on the Ten Year Treasury Bill, not the FFR.