How about an excess profits tax on Halliburton, Bechtel, et.al?

[Ugnmoose]

Let those sob's pay for the clean up in Iraq given the fact that they were handed the contracts without any competitive bidding. We can call it a "share the wealth program".

[readmylips]

1. No background words for little man bushie???

'I FUCKED UP!'

[maggrwaggr]

2. don't forget the oil companies who are having record profits right now

Anybody remember the "windfall profits tax?"

Or did I grow up in a parallel universe. It feels like it.

[Ouabache]

3. Excess profits tax was done in 1898 and again in 1917, I think.

1898 for sure. I know I have read it somewhere, maybe in one of Howard Zinn's histories that in 1898 war profiteers asked for and EXPECTED extra taxes to be levied on their profits. In fact they publicized the fact that since ordinary Americans sent their sons, the corporations had to be expected and willing to PAY the monetary costs, since they would directly profit from the war. (There was no income tax at that time, btw.)