<The language of this article is ridiculous. I'm not sure I even disagree with the author, but the article is full of overly emotionally charged words and extremely obvious bias.>
Of course it is -- it's the NY Times. The author(s) didn't even have the guts to put their own names to it.
One example: they criticize the OK Legislature for a modest cut to oil and gas taxes.
OK's extraction tax for oil and gas is 7%. So, this year's budget takes somewhat less than during the boom.
In CA (a blue state), there is no oil or gas extraction tax at all. Zero.
So, OK producers are paying a little lower tax to the state this year, and that's evil. CA producers pay nothing, and the partisan media (and party insiders) totally ignore that.
Has the NYT (or any other mass media entity) ever brought that up? No; it would point out their hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, the Sierra Club has protests in downtown San Francisco protesting oil development in the Dakotas while ignoring the lack of taxation, and groundwater poisoning, right here in CA.
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<The language of this article is ridiculous. I'm not sure I even disagree with the author, but the article is full of overly emotionally charged words and extremely obvious bias.>
Of course it is -- it's the NY Times. The author(s) didn't even have the guts to put their own names to it.
One example: they criticize the OK Legislature for a modest cut to oil and gas taxes.
OK's extraction tax for oil and gas is 7%. So, this year's budget takes somewhat less than during the boom.
In CA (a blue state), there is no oil or gas extraction tax at all. Zero.
So, OK producers are paying a little lower tax to the state this year, and that's evil. CA producers pay nothing, and the partisan media (and party insiders) totally ignore that.
Has the NYT (or any other mass media entity) ever brought that up? No; it would point out their hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, the Sierra Club has protests in downtown San Francisco protesting oil development in the Dakotas while ignoring the lack of taxation, and groundwater poisoning, right here in CA.