Alaska, Congress, GOP Hypocrisy, Ohio
As I noted earlier, if John McCain and Sarah Palin win next Tuesday, it will be because they have convinced uninformed, undecided voters that Barack Obama is a socialist.
In reality, Palin is the governor of the most socialistic state in the Union. Earlier this year, she freely admitted that Alaskans own the state’s energy reserves “collectively”:
For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face.
The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state.
One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist — Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine — that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
Here’s the exact quote:
And Alaska — we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.
Topics: Alaska, Congress, GOP Hypocrisy, Ohio
Socialist, hell, she’s a COMMIE!!
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This is the dumbest thing I have read all day. I am by far no Palin supporter, for many reasons, but your lack of precision has two logical falacies:
1. Aside from the additional $1200 this year, Palin has not significantly changed the business agreement between the state of Alaska and those companies that extract or exploit the state’s oil resources.
2. There is a huge difference between divying up moneys collected from an individual income tax (which the constitution does not allow for) and divying up moneys collected in a pre-set business arrangement. To conflate the two as the same is not only ignorant but also thoughtless, possibly misleading and duplicitous.
Sal – When the state collectively owns or manages the means of production and distribution of goods and services, that is socialism. The fact that Alaska socialized its oil and mineral rights before Palin became governor is irrelevant. She chose to become the chief executive of the most socialistic state in America. People who participate in socialism are socialists.