Devon, Chesapeake Among 25 Biggest Recipients of Tax Subsidies

**Bellaboo** · 11-09-2011, 07:44 PM

Mike,

Lobbying fees.............Union dues......... dang near the same if you're big enough to fess up to it.....?

**MikeOKC** · 11-09-2011, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Bellaboo

Mike,

Lobbying fees.............Union dues......... dang near the same if you're big enough to fess up to it.....?

Im sorry. I don't follow your point at all. Union members (actually very few working Americans these days) pay union dues. Corporations pay huge fees to lobbying groups. What's the connection?

Unions have nothing to do with corporations lobbying for huge tax breaks.

I guess I don't see your point.

Lobbying fees and union dues are not analogous at all. It's not a matter of "fessing up" because no educated person would say the two have any connection in the context of the original post and all the responses. Nothing.

**Bellaboo** · 11-09-2011, 09:50 PM

Both entities are paying for some kind of influence........ same thing.

**Richard at Remax** · 11-10-2011, 08:53 AM

I'd rather see CHK and Devon get paid in some tax subsidies for having a fairly good business model than the gov't bailing them out (lets say GM) while letting them continue bad business practices. Now with the gov't as part owner us taxpayers have to pay for a percenrage of the union workers retirement and pension funds. Not to mention the sweetheart healthcare deals they got.

**soonerguru** · 11-10-2011, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by Just the facts

If $5 billion in tax cuts over three years can produce the the 4,000 jobs these companies plan to add then that is wayyyyyyyy better than the stimulus plan passed 2 years ago. If this is any indication of the benefits of tax reduction imagine how roaring the economy would be with $1 trillion in tax cuts every year.

60 percent of the stimulus you decry came in the form of tax cuts.