<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/230147/bp-escrow-fund-deficit-reduction-plan/greg-pollowitz">Is anyone surprised</a>?</p>
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<p>Out-of-work Gulf Coast shrimper Todd Pellegal spent his first $2,500 check from BP quickly, paying off bills and buying groceries for his family.<br />
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<p>He never even considered putting some of it away for taxes.<br />
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<p>Now he&rsquo;s among the people up and down the Gulf Coast reeling from the oil spill disaster who are surprised &mdash; and frustrated &mdash; to find out the Internal Revenue Service may take a chunk of the payments BP PLC is providing to help them stay afloat.</p>
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<p>Obama forcing oil workers to stop working in the Gulf + unconstitutional seizure of property from BP + taxing workers on money forced from private company into hands of private citizens to fill government coffers = awesome amounts of hope and change.</p>