“We haven’t seen any real justification on why an important and essential American industry is being targeted for tax increases”

What a glorious quote. It’s got everything. A dismissive head-in-sand style approach, leading into a self-aggrandizing appeal to nationalism, followed by a flimsy attempt to claim victimhood.

If you have nothing better to do with excess cash than turn it directly into air pollution in the most wasteful way possible, then I think it should be fair game. The working class should have first dibs on the wealth they produce.