We Need To Apologize To The Oil Companies
How dare we consider changing the rules and imposing taxes on the industry?
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The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
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2 comments:
How smart do you have to be to know that "oil industry" taxes are paid by all of us.
Yikes.
You need to remember with all progressive governmental types, it is only the 'ends' which matter - more money/power/control for the government.
Who's pocket it comes from or who's rights are diminished in the process are just inconsequential 'means'.
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