On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > About Exxon not paying income taxes... > > > http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/2011/04/27/gas-prices-and-industry-earnings-a-few-things-to-think-about/ > > ExxonMobil is one of the largest taxpayers in the United States > Last year, our total taxes and duties to the U.S. government topped > $9.8 billion, which includes an income tax expense of $1.6 billion. > Over the past five years, we incurred a total U.S. tax expense of > almost $59 billion, which is $18 billion more than we earned in the > United States during the same period. Critics often try to ignore > these facts by saying the oil and gas industry receives subsidies. > But what they really mean is that they want to increase our taxes by > taking away long-standing deductions for our industry while leaving > these same deductions in place for other sectors of the econom > >
All so you can make your 2 bucks a share, all fine and dandy if you own thousands of them. Commodities markets are a joke. You make money if you bet the price is going to rise in the next 30 days and it does, OR if you believe it's going to drop in the next 30 days and it does. You have a 50/50 chance of making money and I doubt it's even 50/50 if you see the price drop 3 cents SELL just as long as it was above the price when you bought in, you still made some serious money off of nothing. You just need a huge sum of money to participate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
