Posted on 03/27/2011 9:08:15 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Stop lying about Palin's record. ACES was a good for Alaskans.
ACES cut off a corporate/political gravy train.
Wow! Sounds like lots of people on here will vote for Palin just because there’s an “R” after her name. Or even just because her name is Palin.
Let me ask you some questions:
Will you be excited about her if, prior to the election, she announces she’s going to make McCain SOS or will appoint him “Immigration Czar”?
Or she’s so grateful to Hillary for “paving the way” that she’s going to ask her to be an advisor?
Or she’s going to set up a commission on the deficit and ask three Bushes and a Huckabee to serve?
Palin is not perfect. From all the candidates “in the running” today, her and Bachman are the only two I’d even consider voting for. But neither of them is perfect and both of them could still do something or say something that makes me NOT vote for them.
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It's hard to discuss this with somebody who doesn't seem to know the difference between royalty schemes (everybody agrees) and taxes (confiscation).
Did you sign off on the government's' imposition of IRS confiscation of a % your earnings? I sure didn't.
And neither did the oil companies when Palin levied her extra tax on top of the existing taxes and royalties.
The Palin scheme is the Obama scheme. It stinks like those famous down-strean floating fish.
Current status: Parnell doesn't have the votes to pass it.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-palin-theres-no-place-like-homein.html
When the state government and its people own the resource there is little difference between a tax and a royalty on the resource owned.
The Palin scheme is the Obama scheme.
The Palin scheme in not the Obama scheme unless of course if the federal government owns the resource.
I was going off several other sites from last week. Some claimed that it had been done and the Oil Companies were relieved. I was wrong. This is too bad. Production there has slipped from over a Million Barrels to just over 600,000.
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Nonsense. Palin pushed trhough an addtional tax that was exclusively imposed on net profits. It was over and above existing taxes and royalties.
From yesterday's Seattle Times...."With the oil industry's reputation at a low point, her administration crafted a bill that created a kind of windfall-profits tax that would give Alaska an escalating percentage of the revenue as oil prices climbed. The legislature increased the tax rates, and she signed the bill into law."
Tax - not royalties.
Pesky things those facts.
Here is another article about the issue.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014601450_alaska27.html
You really are full of yourself. Take that how you will, brown-eye.
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They also refer to those facts as being lies.
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Utter nonsense.
Royalties are agreed upon compensation for the exploitation of something of value.
When did you agree to be taxed? When did you ever have the option?
Typical spin.
Your Populist plan to redistribute those Oil Company profits (wealth) among the American people would be less than a few dollars per person.
What you mean you aren’t for taxing or taking from the producers and giving a little bit to each and everyone. Hell I thought the “share the wealth plan” was a staple for all to aspire to. Remember Huey Long of Louisina? No thanks on such a plan.
Are you suggesting that there wasn't an existing petroleum production tax?
There has long been an existing production tax.
Generally speaking, Palin's petroleum profits tax was on average about 2.5% higher than the previous PPT and it was considered in the mid range in comparison to the earlier decreasing ELF tax, that the previous PPT had replaced.
Utter nonsense. Royalties are agreed upon compensation for the exploitation of something of value. When did you agree to be taxed? When did you ever have the option? Typical spin.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Your question, "where did I agree to be taxed", is utter nonsense. I've never done business accessing a resource that is owned by the government.
Do you understand that. I doubt it.
And BTW, trying to have a normal conversation with you is imposible.
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