Did you know Alaska receives the 3rd most federal money of the 50 states? Did you know Texas is a net donor state? Did you know most infrastructure in Alaska is paid by the US Govt i.e. you and I. Did you know that is not the case in Texas?
I mean if Texas was 3rd in federal funds received (and Alaska was numero uno for many years)instead of losing federal dollars to those recieving fed welfare, perhaps we wouldn't have to sell bonds to build our roads and bridges. Alaska gets that done by Uncle Sam, not the Lone Star State.
Under 2% of Texas is public land, the rest is privately owned.
Alaska doesn't have a sales tax or an income tax and it's citizens receive around $1,500 a year just for living there. Boy that Sarah Palin and every governor before her and after her are budgetary miracle workers. Could they do the same for the whole of the USA? Perhaps by levying a windfall profit tax on the oil companies but someone has to pay the welfare dollars to the states, who would that be?
This is an example of what Palin did while governor. Compare this with other governors:
“Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”’
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp
“I get frustrated with folks from outside Alaska who come up and say you shouldn’t develop your resources,” she says. Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on “federal dollars,” as the state does today.
more http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?page=2
Palin didn’t want Fed. dollars - she wanted Alaska to be allowed to drill baby, drill!!