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  • Sarah Palins Alaskonomics - TIME

    Wake up America Palin's Alaskonomics adds up they are going to cost US Citizens more than any other state in the Union. Read on...... From the page: "Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per... more

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  • Rated by RevRock on Sep 10 2008, 7:13am

    Wow. Vicious. I like it.

  • Rated by Huntington-Meath on Sep 10 2008, 3:00am

    Wake up America Palin's Alaskonomics adds up they are going to cost US Citizens more than any other state in the Union. Read on...... From the page: "Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook. Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state's unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can't afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears. "

  • Rated by seasandcakes on Sep 09 2008, 11:06pm

    With the massive amount of stories about all of the pork Palin pushed for, how she hired a lobbyist to secure more pork for Wasilla, and how Alaska ranks number 1 in the nation in pork received, I think it's about time to add a "pork" tag to SU.Oh, yeah: under her, Alaskans pay the highest taxes of any state in the nation, too. But they get more than they give - they are still number one in amount of pork received per person. And she really didn't fire her personal chef. Oink.

  • Rated by KristinJ117 on Sep 09 2008, 12:35pm

    Alaskan Economics: No. 1 In Taxes Per Resident And No. 1 In Spending Per Resident

  • Rated by mrneoluddite on Sep 09 2008, 11:17am

    From the page: Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state's unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can't afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

  • Rated by sustainablogger on Sep 09 2008, 10:03am

    From the page: "So maybe Governor Palin does represent everything that is good and fine about America, as she herself maintains. But spare us, please, any talk about how she is a tough fiscal conservative. "

  • Rated by ianrey on Sep 09 2008, 8:42am

    I'm glad the media is actually going after Palin's lies. I don't care about her personal life, but I do care that she lies about being a reformer when she is actually a corrupt cronyist, and she lies about being a fiscal conservative when she is actually a tax and spend and borrow and spend some more politician.