corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes on of course they are. corporations are people, my friend. those words spoken to laughter by willard mitt romney sound funny, but have an unfunny connotation. lawyers for the railroad argued that because states have different tax laws, making the railroad pay violated its 14th amendment right to equal protection. it was not a new argument. for 20 years after the 14th amendment was adopted in 1868 to protect ex-slaves, they tried to use it to get out of regulations and taxes, and they lost until santa clara versus the southern pacific railroad. the chief justice of the supreme court who ruled on that case was
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don t overdo it or it won t sound funny. anyway, bp wasn t supposed to make this announcement until tomorrow but it is bp, so the news leaked. there s plenty of vodka there, too, so if he starts to stress out under pressure, he s good to go. a lot of people may think that bp is sending tony hayward off to siberia in russia but actually, this is a very, very profitable joint operation, and i got to tell you, bps that a lot of respect for tony hayward. they re just kind of getting him out of the spotlight. it s a demotion from ceo but it s a high profile project nevertheless. earnings from a giant oil company are normally going to focus on huge profits but today we re talking about the largest oil spill in u.s. history and that took a huge bite out of bp s bottom line. they lost more than $17 billion in the second quarter after the company took a huge pretax