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Don Nickles: “Congress passed a bad law called the Windfall Profits Tax. That motivated me to run for Senate more than anything else.”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
Congress passed a bad law called the Windfall Profits Tax. That motivated me to run for Senate more than anything else.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Nickles explains his motivation for running for Senate related to a problematic tax law.

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You cannot afford to make fossil fuels' tax equal to the enormous subsidy that wind currently receives.

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Uncle Sam is writing a check to Warren Buffett to produce windmills--$138 million.

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