03/29/2011
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"Will you agree with me, if you increase taxes on domestic production of energy, it will necessarily increase our dependence on imported energy?"
"So you can increase taxes on an industry and it will have no impact on price to consumers, is what you are saying?"
"Is there not a very real danger of gasoline prices skyrocketing for the average consumer, and what would that do to our fragile economic recovery?"
"I worry that, along with the additional tax burden, that an industry which employs 9.2 million people in America right now, by adding $46 billion in additional taxes over the next 10 years by the perm..."