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Jenkins Statement on Obama's Plan to Tax Oil

Statement

Date: Feb. 5, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Oil and Gas Taxes

Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (KS-02) released the following statement in regard to President Obama's proposed $10-per-barrel oil tax to pay for his green transportation projects:

"Once again, President Obama shows that he is more interested in listening to fringe activists than to the American people, who are already struggling with a crippling tax burden. Our nation needs serious ideas that help create jobs and make life easier and cheaper for folks in America -- not more tax burdens. Fortunately, this proposal is not a serious proposal and is merely designed to appease the fringe of his liberal base. As the President knows full well, it is dead on arrival in a Republican controlled Congress where House Republicans will stop the policy before it can harm Americans."


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