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Sen. Hillary Clinton said that the record profits of "the oil companies" should be put in an alternative-energy fund. She is right about the record profits: ExxonMobil made $39.5 billion last year, more than any other company in history. But its profit came second to that of the government, which took $100.7 billion from the company (according to the Tax Foundation). Oil-profit taxes have a long record of discouraging ...