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why aren't the costs of militarily defending our oil interests in the persion gulf included in determining the u.s. cost of a barrel of oil?
Asked by: Gerald Wagner from Dayton, OH. Received 17 Votes.
Categories: Campaign 2008.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)

It’s obvious that the war in Iraq has made things more difficult because of turmoil in the Middle East, and just the amount of oil the war is using. There’s a number of things that have caused the price of oil to go up. We believe, and that’s part of our package, we need to do something to rein in the speculation, we believe there’s a lot of speculation. Some economists say the percentage is pretty high, just the speculative part of this.

Answered on May 13th, 2008 More
do you support continuing tarrifs on sugar imports, and if you do, why?
Asked by: Gerald Wagner from Dayton, OH. Received 11 Votes.
Categories: Globalization.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)

Right now in the United States we pay about twice what the world going rate is on sugar, and that causes cookies and candies and all kind of other products to be more expensive at the supermarket, because of the sugar policy in America. And there are a fairly small number of very wealthy falimies in Florida that take advantage of this to the detriment of the rest of the country. So in my view we ought to let the market determine what the price of sugar ought to be and we shouldn’t have any sort of subsidy or any sort of tariffs on sugar.

Answered on Apr 17th, 2008 More
do you agree or disagree that the supplemental appropriations for iraq/afganistan should be included in the normal annual budget of the united states? if you are elected, how will you submit these appropriations?
Asked by: Gerald Wagner from Dayton, OH. Received 34 Votes.
Categories: Campaign 2008 · Money & Politics.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Of course. There ought to be truth in budgeting. I don’t think that this is a real complicated concept. It seems to me that war expenditures just as expenditures for human services and other essential functions of government have got to be transparent.

Elizabeth Wynne Johnson: Anything that you plan to do to see that happen?

Certainly in the Budget Committee, you know with the Budget Resolution, Chairman Conrad is going to make a big push to try to force additional disclosure of those costs.

Answered on Mar 6th, 2008 More