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Incentives for the frackers?

April 9, 2011 By TXsharon

You have to read this blog post at Public Citizen.

Corporate welfare for oil and gas or fully funded schools?

Texas oil and gas officials will plead with House Appropriations Committee members next week that the industry needs its $1.2 billion annual tax break, more than children need fully funded schools or the elderly need nursing homes to stay open.

Go read it. You’ll be smoking mad.

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Comments

  1. Westchester Neighbor says

    April 9, 2011 at 3:21 am

    Insult to injury. They're so good at that.

  2. TadGhostHole says

    April 9, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    Maybe if you give the gas drillers permission to drill near fully funded schools they could work out a deal…. oh wait they get to do that anyway.

  3. Anonymous says

    April 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    One industry vs. future of all Texans. Wow, what a choice. "Who paid my way into office, it wasn't the school kids? Then screw 'em"

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