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Obama Ditches Crude Tax: Now that oil hit $50 a barrel, president-elect turns back from campaign plan to use revenue from windfall profits tax to fund a rebate for middle class struggling with energy prices
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- Wed Dec 03 200801:55 AMRe: Obama broken promises
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Originally Posted By: the G-man of Zur-En-Arrh
Obama Ditches Crude Tax: Now that oil hit $50 a barrel, president-elect turns back from campaign plan to use revenue from windfall profits tax to fund a rebate for middle class struggling with energy prices
So much for the democrat idea that the oil companies were just hoarding oil and swindling everyone out of their money.
For all the talk about an Obama transition team not using Washington lobbyists for assistance, there sure are a lot of private meetings being held with Washington corporate lobbyists at Obama transition offices around the nation's capital.
According to Obama transition insiders, senior Obama staff have held or have scheduled meetings with lobbyists from the telecom, health-care, pharmaceutical, energy, and automotive industries, asking for their input into stimulus packages and for their assistance in lobbying the House and the Senate for tax credits and line item funding items for appropriations and budget items to be placed in legislation that may come before Congress before the Obama Administration takes office.
"We ran against companies like that throughout the campaign, and now we're getting in bed with them. It stinks, and we want it to end," says the source.
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- Fri Dec 12 200802:09 PMRe: Obama Team's Secret Meetings with Lobbyists
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Obama's more than a month away from being inaugurated, and he already has his first major scandal, that could destroy his presidency before it even begins.
The only difference between Obama's crew and that of the Bush administration is that Obama now has the largest donors coming to him for taxpayer-funded favors. Including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Wall Street. Not to mention MoveOn.org and ACORN.
