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Good, record stock market, record low unemployment, record wage increases, record corporate profits, record oil production, record oil exports, record oil profits, record minority unemployment, PACT Act for veterans, infrastructure bill. That's what we paid for.
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The problem is, conservatives say they can balance budgets, slow spending, etc... Issue is they have no history of that. They play politics and try to say they're better than democrats but there is no proof of that. Look at the Reagan, he doubled the national debt in 8 years. Both Bush increased deficit, Trump added trillions more, republican controlled government doesn't stop debt or kicking can down the road. Look at recession or depressions, each one started with a conservative president. On the other hand democrats also historically do not control spending or debt reduction, other than Clinton. Both parties are equally responsible but politicians like Scott only point the finger and play politics. Tax cuts only add to deficits, to get out of this we have to both raise taxes and cut spending. Right won't cut military spending, which is approaching 1 trillion a year. Left won't touch entitlements. Republicans love to talk about funding for research that isn't needed, they cry about 800 million going here but when F35/f22 programs being trillions over budget, no issues there. Voters need to step up and ask their politicians actual questions and not just select candidates based on either a D or R.
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I'm confused, your saying the lowest continuous unemployment rate in decades, record job creation, first wage increases in decades, highest stock market ever, record corporate profits, record oil production, record oil exports, manufacturing jobs coming back, US competing now to be world Chips leader, you want me to continue, means Dems and Biden haven't done anything good?
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@Sam-sq3ut Deductions for the costs of drilling wells
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 263(c)
Amount saved by repealing: $13.1 billion between 2016 and 2026
As a general practice, businesses deduct business costs from their income. But for large capital projects, they do so over the lifetime of the asset or project, not during the period in which the cost was incurred. Oil and gas companies, however, can deduct intangible drilling costs—nearly all of the expenditures a company makes to prepare a well for production—upfront, which can lower their taxable income significantly. Independent oil and gas producers can deduct 100 percent of their intangible drilling costs in the first year. Integrated oil companies can deduct 70 percent of these costs in the first year and then amortize the remaining 30 percent over five years.
Domestic manufacturing deduction for oil and gas production
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 199
Amount saved by repealing: $10.9 billion between 2016 and 2026
In 2004, Congress passed the American Jobs Creation Act, which included a tax deduction designed to incentivize domestic manufacturing in the United States and keep certain industries from moving abroad. Oil and gas producers can deduct 6 percent of taxable income derived from qualified domestic production activities. This tax break is a handout to the industry as domestic oil and gas production—by definition—cannot move abroad.
Deductions for the depletion of oil and gas deposits
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 613A(c)(1)
Amount saved by repealing: $12.1 billion between 2016 and 2026
The tax code also allows certain oil and gas companies to recover costs associated with the depletion of the natural resource—the oil or gas deposit. The depletion allowance permits royalty owners and independent oil and gas producers to deduct 15 percent of the gross income from oil and gas produced from a well each year, rather than a deduction based on the actual exhaustion of the resource each year. Operators of low-producing marginal wells are permitted to deduct more than 15 percent—based on a statutory formula linked to the price of crude—and to deduct more than their net income from the property. These producers may be able to continue claiming the depletion deduction even after they have recovered the costs of acquiring and developing the property. This means that other taxpayers are effectively subsidizing their income.
Deductions for the depletion of oil shale deposits
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 613(b)(2)(B)
Amount saved by repealing: The U.S. Treasury would save $840 million between 2016 and 2026 by repealing the depletion deduction for all hard mineral fossil fuels, of which oil shale is one. The amount applying to oil shale alone is unknown.
Oil shale—located primarily in Utah and Colorado—is expensive to extract and process, is particularly harmful to the environment, and has yet to reach commercial scale in the United States. Despite these drawbacks, companies engaged in oil shale exploration and development can claim a 15 percent depletion allowance on income generated from these activities. Consequently, taxpayers are subsidizing environmentally harmful projects that are not needed, given high-levels of oil production elsewhere in the United States.
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@Sam-sq3ut Deductions for the costs of oil shale exploration and development
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 617
Amount saved by repealing: The U.S. Treasury would save $768 million between 2016 and 2026 by repealing this tax preference for certain mining exploration expenditures, including expenditures for oil shale. The amount applying to oil shale alone is unknown.
This tax preference allows oil and gas companies to deduct the costs of exploring and developing new domestic oil shale fields in the same tax year that the costs were incurred, rather than when those expenditures actually generate income. This means that companies engaged in oil shale production can incur costs exploring for deposits and deduct those costs from other income, whether or not they ever generate income on the property. This transfers the risk from the company to the taxpayer.
Amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 167(h)
Amount saved: $1.3 billion between 2016 and 2026
Oil and gas companies use geological and geophysical surveys in order to locate and assess potential mineral deposits. Rather than amortizing these expenses over the lifetime of the project, independent oil and gas producers are allowed to write off these expenses over two years, and large integrated oil and gas companies can use seven years. This lowers the companies’ taxable income.
Deductions for tertiary injectants
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 193
Amount saved by repealing: $100 million between 2016 and 2026
This tax deduction allows oil and gas companies to deduct the costs of using tertiary recovery methods, processes in which companies inject fluids and gases into older wells in order to recover additional oil. Companies can deduct the costs in the year they are incurred rather than when the expenditures generate income, thereby lowering their taxable income.
Exception to passive loss limitation for working interests in oil and natural gas properties
Location in tax code: 26 U.S.C. § 469(c)(3)
Amount saved by repealing: $310 million between 2016 and 2026
The passive loss limitation allows taxpayers to deduct losses from passive activities—business activities in which a taxpayer has an economic interest but does not materially participate—against income from those activities. If the deductions exceed the passive income, the taxpayer must carry the remaining loss over to the next tax year. This rule is intended to prevent investors from using investments as tax shelters. Certain oil and gas interests, however, are exempt from this limitation and can use passive losses to reduce taxes on other business income.
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