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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (31805)	6/15/2010 3:03:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Fees and offsetting receipts occur at almost every government department. You may be using the term American Taxpayers in general, to mean the universe of all tax, fines, fees and regulatory receipts, whether personal, non-profit, Corp., State, etc." Well... I suppose one could selectively levy a fee on the entire offshore drilling industry, designed to build-up a sinking fund or some such escrow-type concept so as to draw upon when and if any of the firms in said industry ever create a pollution event of this nature again --- so as to keep the costs from simply being directly paid out of the US Treasury. (That would be very similar in concept to the fund that was discussed re. the Wall Street firms... so no 'bail out' would ever be charged directly to the taxpayers again there....) But somehow I expect that most all the OTHER* firms* involved in offshore drilling would protest such a fee pretty LOUDLY. No doubt claiming that B.P. was the single 'bad actor' here, and why the heck should THEY have to pay for a competitor's slip-shod and careless actions?