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To: Snowshoe who wrote (120553)	6/30/2016 3:24:38 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219512

If we have a terrible financial crisis, how come we don't at least have normal taxes like every other state in the union? It seems like the logical thing to do is start with normal taxation. And why do we tax the oil companies so low? And speaking of the terrible financial crisis, we have $60 billion in the bank. We are in better shape financially than any state in the union. And remember, we voted to give the oil companies outrageous tax cuts. To the point where we now have to pay them to take our oil out of the ground. If you want to see how much money the oil companies have stolen from us by our legislators that have helped them out over the years just compare how much money we have in our sovereign wealth fund compared how much Norway has in their sovereign wealth fund. We have about $60 billion and they have close to a $1 trillion. One last thing, remember that in the last decade or so a dozen Republican legislators have been indicted or convicted of bribery. They have videos of them taking bribes out of a fishbowl at the Baronoff hotel. And not one of them was a Democrat. As well, of the 20 legislators that took over $10,000 in campaign contributions from the oil companies only one was a rural Democrat, the other 19 were all Republicans.