Tax The Oil Companies

April, 1967

Tax the Oil CompaniesFor a sufficient reason a man might do anything: murder his wife, enter a monastery, move to Texas or take up the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett. One such reason is usually enough. He seldom gets 30 billion reasons for doing anything. Thirty billion, after all, is a very large number. If you tried to count it out a second at a time, it would take you 100 years, with no time out for sleep. Today in this country, we have 30 billion sound reasons for doing one particular thing,...