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To: American Spirit who wrote (270779)1/31/2006 2:18:52 PM
From: AK2004  Respond to of 1578199
 
re: afraid of the US federal government regulation

out of curiosity, which US regulation extends to off shore accounts?



To: American Spirit who wrote (270779)1/31/2006 7:57:06 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578199
 
as,

re:Big Oil's gouged revenues result in very little going back to the government.

You would be wrong as usual - every dollar they make is taxed and distributed to others as pay or cap gains which is taxed yet again all the way down the chain. You do know those are public companies, they don't stuff all the profits in a mattress.