``Lawmakers let go any financial inhibitions and started spending like
a bunch of drunken sailors,'' said Jill Lancelot, president of the
watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense.
``This energy bill is filled to the brim with massive giveaways for
mega-rich energy companies.''
From The Associated Press, 7/27/05:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5169950,00.html
Energy Deal Has Tax Breaks for Companies
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
A wide-ranging energy bill expected to move through Congress this week
includes more than $8.5 billion in tax incentives and billions of
dollars more in loan guarantees and other subsidies for the
electricity, coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil industries.
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Ain't that ducky?
Harry
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