Others on the internet have noted this jewel regarding the quenchless thirst for more and more taxes (not to mention national champion protectionism) by governments coupled with the beautiful hatred of wealth creation by the evangelical environmentalist 'movement':
Christine Lagarde told LCI television that Sarkozy had asked the new IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Frenchman, to consider a tax that would affect oil companies worldwide.
Environmentalists and others in France have long floated the idea of taxing French oil giant Total, whose record-breaking profits they regard as reprehensible. The company, France's biggest by market value, reported Wednesday that net profit was up by 62 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 3.6 billion euros ($5.23 billion).
Lagarde said the French government was pushing for a global tax so that not only Total -- the world's fourth-largest oil and gas company -- would be penalized.
At what point is enough enough? The dreaded Exxon-Mobil posted record profits in 2007 (40bn, USD), no doubt the evangelical environmentalists overlooked the 'footnote' of Exxon-Mobile paying almost 30bn USD in taxes last year, a minor detail of course.....
A question, who do we ask to fleece the evangelical environmental movement of their 'donations' when we find their activities to be reprehensible?
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