Boehner agrees with the Chamber of Commerce that taxpayers should pay for oil spill cleanup.

[underpants]

Boehner agrees with the Chamber of Commerce that taxpayers should pay for oil spill cleanup.

Late last month, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue said that he feels its appropriate for taxpayers to cover some of the costs of cleaning up the Gulf Coast in the wake of British Petroleum’s ongoing oil spill. “Everybody is going to contribute to this clean up. We are all going to have to do it. We are going to have to get the money from the government and from the companies and we will figure out a way to do that,” he said. Evidently, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) agrees that taxpayers should be footing the bill, as reported by TPMDC’s Brian Beutler:

In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner backed Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce, in saying taxpayers should help pick up the tab. “I think the people responsible in the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what’s happening there.”


Update Boehner is walking back his statement, with spokesman Michael Steele saying that the "responsibility" Boehner referred to "was whatever reform and restructuring comes after the leak is stopped."

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/10/boehner-spill/

[KonaKane]

1. D-d-did I just see a Republican leader supporting a tax raise?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Love of money trumps all

Apparently oil company money is worth more than the taxes he'd pay

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Like putting toothpaste back in the tube.

:rofl:

[Hawkeye-X]

3. That's why you're a Bonehead,

not a Speaker of the House. Now, shaddup, siddown and wait for your opponent to personally kick your ass.

Hawkeye-X

[underpants]

4. This is a bad headline

Boner doesn't agree with the CofC he reads what they tell him to read

[leftofcool]

9. +1000

[gateley]

5. I posted before, he jumped on the "government is responsible" (read: Obama)

Republican auto-response without thinking it through. Ha! I say we run with this.

[TheBigotBasher]

6. Just a correction

British Petroleum does not exist. It has not existed for years. The change in name was not just a name change it was because of major takeovers by BP. BP is now more American then British, they have 20,000 direct employees in the US and 10,000 direct employees in the UK.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Until Boehner comes out HIMSELF and says

something different then his first statement stands.

[indepat]

10. Nothing to see here except: socialize capitalism's losses, but let capitalism keep all its profits

while not paying even a modicum of income taxes. By golly, I think I got it. :P

[FBI_Un_Sub]

11. Only if

The people take all title and interest to all of BP's assets (like Chapter XI). If anything this is the call to convert our passenger car fleet to 100% alternatives and renewables.