[Al B.]

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”)

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.

[Brices Crossroads]

“You are one of the most disingenous people I’ve seen here, and that’s saying a lot.”

When you give him the facts, Al, he slinks away. A complete phony blowhard. He converts no one with his foolishness. And he is thoroughly disingenuous. He has outed himself as having a financial ax to grind against Palin and VR called him on it.

And what is his response?

Crickets

Every time he shows up on a thread, I am going to repost his Atlantic Richfield and Sohio post. Some of the PDS crew are not here for malice but for lucre. And some are here for both.