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To: thackney
Only Mississippi and New Mexico get a better deal than Alaska.

You don't have to like it but the fact is that Alaska is a welfare state. The IRS itself put the number at $1.84 received for every $1.00 sent. Those of us in net-payer states are subsidizing Alaska.

That is the fact of it.

47 posted on 08/10/2011 6:55:55 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

You only want to count part of the taxes being collected. When ConocoPhillips and BP send in their huge check from corporate headquarters, that headquarters is not in Alaska.

Million acre parks don’t generate money, they take money.

Open the land for productive use, limit the federal ownership to something more reasonable than nearly 2/3 the entire state.


48 posted on 08/10/2011 7:10:44 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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