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Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Hey MM
Date:	6/20/2010 3:30:31 PM

I just read that Obama wants to reinstate the funding for the Superfund which was last funded in 94-95. You have any thoughts on funding again? I assume it would be a positive for your business. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/20/AR2010062001789.html

Name:	rude evin -	Reply
Subject:	Hey MM
Date:	6/20/2010 10:31:42 PM

I think you will have to get up earlier to lay that trap..........troll!

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Hey RUDE
Date:	6/21/2010 12:21:19 AM

MM is a big boy and fully capable of answering. You make it appear he is some country boy incapable of responding to a simple question of does he support a Superfund TAX since it will appear to be of positive value to his business. You would shy away from responding but MM has an opinion on everything.

Name:	water_watcher -	Reply
Subject:	Hey RUDE
Date:	6/21/2010 6:38:05 AM

Do you like being disliked so much? People see through the garbage you throw out. You are so out of step with reality.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Hey MM
Date:	6/21/2010 9:33:01 AM

GF. Of course reinstatement of the Superfund tax will not be good for my business and I thank you for the opportunity to explain why this once again demonstrates that government should be limited. The primary reason for the Superfund tax was to pay for Superfund staff in EPA headquarters and the regions and to pay the orphan share of cleanups. The orphan share being sites or portions of allocation at sites where the potentially responsible party (PRP) was no longer in existence.

What EPA did instead was to allocate the orphan share to the viable PRPs because CERCLA (the actual name for the Superfund law) is joint and several liability (meaning even if you only contributed 1% of the contamination you are legally liable for 100% as are all the other PRPs). So instead of EPA going out an hiring contractors to actually do the work they hired contractors to oversee the PRPs doing the work. Now there are some true orphan sites where there is no viable PRP and those cleanups are government funded. However, the vast majority of government funded cleanups are within DOD and DOE. And since we are not a woman or minority owned firm or have the tens of millions of dollars that the big guys (CH2MHill, URS, Bechtel, etc.) use to lobby and bribe government officials to get work we really can't play in that marketplace, except maybe as a sub to one of the big firms.

However, the vast majority of the cleanups are payed by private companies that are PRPs. Any money you take from them in the form of additional taxes can't be used for them to hire my company to cleanup their sites. Why is it fair for industrial company A that already is paying to cleanup their sites also have to pay a tax to cover the cost of cleanup of a site contaminated by now defunct company B. But more to the point, and this is another lesson in simple economics, companies are incapable of paying taxes. Only individuals pay taxes. So if you tax a company they will simply pass that cost along to the ultimate consumers like you and me. Just what we need in these trying economic times, eh?

You know, really good lawyers always know the answer to any question they ask in a trial. You should give that a try.....

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Hey MM
Date:	6/21/2010 7:11:19 PM

Thanks MM. You taught me something today. It is interesting that Rude and WW say absolutly nothing of value.

Name:	rude evin -	Reply
Subject:	G-F
Date:	6/21/2010 10:29:07 PM

Well hot shot, you must be feeling good about yourself just now........truth be told I was trying to help you out so you wouldn't get the bark knocked off your tree again......but as they used to say on Hew Haw "He'll never learn".
So now, you may want to revise part of your post to me...."but MM has an opinion on everything".....to read " he brought some facts to the table while knocking the bark off my tree". Come on confession is good for the soul :-}

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Rudieee
Date:	6/21/2010 10:44:06 PM

6/20/2010 10:31:42 PM I think you will have to get up earlier to lay that trap..........troll! 6/21/2010 10:29:07 PM Well hot shot, you must be feeling good about yourself just now... In less than 24 hours, I went from being a TROLL to being a HOT SHOT. You are so perceptive to finally conclude that I am rather amazing. For a conservative, it is nice to see that you do know right from wrong.

Name:	water_watcher -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Rudieee
Date:	6/22/2010 7:16:54 AM

They both fit. Wear them with pride.

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