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Should President-elect Obama still consider a windfall tax on oil companies?

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An aide on President-elect Obama's transition team said that Obama is no longer considering a windfall tax because oil has dropped below $80/barrel. Read more...

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Tom Bevan

“Obama declared...$80 per barrel...was the threshold price for applying a windfall profit tax. How [he] came up with this figure is a mystery, and it demonstrates not only the foolishness of setting arbitrary price triggers but also the unfairness of targeting one industry for additional taxation...”

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Pejman Yousefzadeh

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“Of course, no matter what the price of oil, a windfall profits tax is a terrible idea so the President-elect should not have waited until the price of oil fell before making the decision to ditch the tax.”

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Thomas Pyle

“A windfall profits tax is bad policy at any price...[this is] a heartening development -- both for consumers and an economy struggling to claw its way out of recession.”

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Should President-elect Obama still consider a windfall tax on oil companies? (5 quotes)

Lee Fuller

“The judgment to withdraw the concept of a windfall profits tax is an important recognition that developing America's oil and natural gas would be seriously damaged by such a tax policy”

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Yes

David Sirota

Columnist

“...a windfall profits tax really is - a safety valve regulation against profiteering, and one that can raise needed revenues when profiteering occurs. If there is supposedly no profiteering occurring, then what's the supposed harm?”

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