Compassion

You hear a lot of democrats and other open borders people talking about compassion when it comes to illegal aliens in this country, but where is that compassion when dealing with the American people? The Democrats in the Senate tried to pass a new tax on oil companies this week, but fortunately it was blocked by Senate Republicans. The supporters of the tax argue that the oil companies can afford it, what with their record profits of the past couple of years, and the profits they expect going forward, and indeed they are correct on that count. The reason that this would have been a bad idea, and therefore why some Republicans took a firm stand against it, is that the tax, like all other costs, would have been passed directly to the consumer. We would have paid the tax for them every time we went to the pump. This measure wouldn't have cut into their profits at all. The idea was to use the money to finance research into alternative forms of energy, which is a laudable goal, but not something that the government should be paying for at all. The private sector should be stepping up and shelling out the big bucks to figure out what will work, in the hope of getting good returns sometime down the road. In fact, if there was more intelligence than greed at play in the minds of the big oil executives, they would be dumping truckloads of money into this research to get themselves on the leading edge, and ultimately make a lot more money, for a lot more years to come, but, in the end, greed is a very shortsighted master.