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Exxon Mobil Per Second: $1,400 In Profits, $4,000 In Taxes, $15,000 In Operating Costs

By Mark Perry on August 28, 2008 | More Posts By Mark Perry | Author's Website

Obama thinks government is not getting a “reasonable share” of oil companies’ profits, which in 2007 were, as a percentage of revenue (8.3%), below those of U.S. manufacturing generally (8.9 %). Exxon Mobil pays almost as much in corporate taxes to various governments as the bottom 50% of American earners pay in income taxes. Exxon Mobil does make $1,400 a second in profits — hear the sharp intakes of breath from liberals with pursed lips — but pays $4,000 a second in taxes and $15,000 a second in operating costs.

~George Will in today’s Washington Post, partly based on this CD post (his office called to verify the data in that post)

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