Something that drives me CRAZY is when the govt. doesn't get somebody's money...and they call it at "the taxpayers expense"
First off...only about half of us ARE taxpayers. Second, the federal govt. isn't actually paying them any money...they just are not TAKING that particular amount of money FROM them.
Check out how it is written in that article:
"now nearly half of BP?s $20B escrow fund will be paid for with taxpayer money
BP said Tuesday that it is incurring a charge of $32.2 billion from the Gulf response, and as such, it is claiming a $9.9 billion taxation credit."
So in other words it has cost BP 32.2 billion dollars. They are able to write off 9.9 billion of it in expenses.
I see nothing wrong with that.
By the way that is less than one day of what the Feds spend every day (10.6 billion).
But it's presented to the sheeple as "paid for with taxpayer money"....NO it's not!
It's not "paid for" by anything but BP's money.
Fucking govt. thinks that all of my money and your money and everybody's money belongs to them 100%. And any that you get to keep is "costing tax payer money".
I'm not defending BP in this rant. I'm just disgusted at the way that the federal govt. views things. We are all just a bunch of worker bees to supply them with money. And they have got the media in their pocket making sure to condition people to think the same way.
Disgusting.