And thanks for the pointed Populist/Marxist rhetoric as well as your ignorance that there was already a revenue sharing program already in place, paying most of Alaska’s operating expenses and paying every resident an average of $1,000.00 per year since 1976. (See; “Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend”)
But go ahead keep making a spectacle of yourself. We’ve learned a lot about your brand of “conservatism” in the process.
Yeah, a revenue system that encouraged no new development, shut out the Big 3's competitors and resulted in an inexorable decline in revenue to Alaska because of declining Prudhoe Bay output, opportunities for competition and little new exploration because the Big 3 ran the show.
Hell, even your hero Frank Murkowski understood that. He changed the tax system and went to a 22.5% net-revenue tax to bring in some competition before Palin even got into the process. Murkowski made the Corrupt Bastards Club happy (and rich) and a few people went to jail, but so what, right?
You are one of the most disingenous people I've seen here, and that's saying a lot.
“We’ve learned a lot about your brand of “conservatism” in the process.”
This from someone who is still open to cap and tax gun grabber, Mike Castle supporting Chris Christie. We know all we need to know about your brand of “conservatism”.
BTW, you can’t share revenue from leases the oil companies refuse to drill. Didn’t mention that part about revenue sharing, did you.
You live up there in Alaska and elect a harridan statist like Murkowski and you have the gumption to come lecture me about conservatism. You voted for her, did you not? If not, prove it. Show me the posts where you supported Joe Miller and you win back a sliver of the credibility you lost by your “openness” to Chris Christie.