Who pay the taxes between the customer, worker, stockholder, company partner, etc... is not that obvious (i.e. remove the tax would the price at the pomp go down or stay and increase the company revenues), it is quite fongible you cannot really decide who is actually taxed in particular, every tax is paid by all of them, a company is after all only a accounting convention and cannot be actually taxed. End of the day how can a tax not be paid from money that came from the customer of the product pocket ?You pay the taxes, the tax money goes to the oil company.
In texas alone tax and royalty (not counting federal) from oil was above 24 billions last year (not sure if it count the personal income tax of the employee in that field, their house municipal tax they pay with their oil&gas income and so on), I doubt the industry and its clients are at hole on a net positive from a state benefit point of view, state with a lot of oil tend to have the least taxed population.
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