Now a windfall tax, it seems to me, would not be inappropriate in this context.
And yesterday, two senators said they wanted a windfall tax on the profits of big oil companies.
Tony Blair argues that investing the windfall tax will permanently cut unemployment, and thus the welfare bill.
There are no current plans to introduce a windfall tax on oil companies.
The new government is expected to introduce a windfall tax on mining profits.
In Africa, the government of Namibia is mulling over a mining windfall tax.
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In the 1990s, tech companies deducted multi-million dollar W-2s comprised mostly of stock option exercises, still another windfall tax break too.
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Labour has bold plans to create work for the long-term jobless, paid for by a windfall tax on the privatised utilities.
The talk may be about a windfall tax on oil companies, but the action will be on boosting subsidies for alternative fuels.
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The Treasury is likely also to investigate slapping a windfall tax on oil producers next year just as Sir Geoffrey Howe did in the early 1980s.
In the shorter term the political provocation of the bonus payouts is likely to increase demand for a windfall tax on bonuses or salary caps.
Yet he simultaneously claimed a huge retrospective dividend for himself from the privatised utilities (the windfall tax), asserting that this would have no impact on investment by these firms.
While some taxpayers may not want to adjust their withholding because they like the enforced savings that comes with a windfall tax return, others may want to, says Mr. Sabates.
They have managed to compete successfully with rich-country farmers who receive large subsidies, despite the windfall tax of up to 23% that the government slapped on exports after the devaluation.
Mr Obama posed as a protectionist during the Democratic primaries (though he has since toned down his rhetoric), and he backs populist notions such as a windfall tax on oil firms.
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Nevertheless, her campaign has echoed Mr Humala's pledges to levy a windfall tax on mining companies and give Andean Indian communities veto rights over mining and oil projects on their land.
There was a case for putting right some of the wrong done in the privatisations of the 1990s that created the oligarchs, for instance by imposing a windfall tax on them and their companies.
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Organisers of the campaign for a windfall tax say they have secured a resolution on the issue to be debated at the TUC conference next week, which they claim is almost certain to be passed.
Meanwhile, a Labour backbencher, Fabian Hamilton, who has called for a windfall tax on energy companies, says the Government risks losing support if it fails to provide a one-off payment to help ease people's energy woes.
Economic hardship and tightening spending constraints have brought the resulting tensions into the open: witness the recent row over whether the government should impose a windfall tax on energy companies and use the money to help poor families meet their rising fuel bills (it didn't).
For a start, it could do a better job of explaining how its activities benefit the British economy which mostly they do, by creating jobs and by generating higher returns for its investors, the bulk of which are those same pension funds that Mr Brown hurt with his windfall tax.
It is a hard question to answer in Britain, where the new Labour government is poised to levy a windfall tax on privatised utilities, where the electricity regulator will impose a tighter cap on electricity distribution charges in 2000, and where competition in the supply of electricity to domestic consumers is due to start next year.
Barack Obama, supports the repeal of oil company tax breaks and a windfall profits tax.
Let the well-to-do think the tax increase will come for them so they will take their long term capital gains this year at the lower tax rates, raising a huge one time windfall of tax revenues.
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Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.
Something more punitive is likely as well, for instance a windfall profits tax on oil, and maybe other industries.
He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.
McCain argues that a windfall profits tax will only increase the country's dependence on foreign oil and be an obstacle to domestic exploration.
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