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To: cynicom

Uh, no...

I'd say that Alaskans are even due more than there per capita share... a lot more. It's a big state, and it needs a road infrastructure to connect people who live far apart. What I question is twenty times more per capita, and the idiocy of these arguments that the money "belongs" to the residents of Alaska.


129 posted on 10/02/2005 7:35:43 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

If you don't think the money is best invested in Alaska and among the residents of Alaska, who do you think should get it--the Federal Government? Should it go the the empire down south like the Sea Otters did when Russia controlled Alaska?

That's the kind of thinking that has been keeping Alaska as a 3rd world nation. Fish resources were controlled by Outside canneries on the west coast. Timber was cut and shipped out instead of turned into products. Few industries have been established in Alaska to provide value-added products. The discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the lease sale of 1969 changed all of that. Before that every Alaskan's first paycheck of the year got $20 taken out of it for a "school tax" that really went into the General Fund.

In fact there are quite a few examples of places in the world where the government owns the oil resources and the people live in squalor. Alaska is a military strategic stronghold for the United States. Our natural resources are providing the possibilities for the United States to have a natural link to the Pacific Rim. This is a very important development that requires some imagination to understand if you live someplace where there is a state income tax...


133 posted on 10/02/2005 8:28:25 PM PDT by akdonn
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To: dangus

What they really would like is to be a free and independent country. I would be their first illegal immigrant.


134 posted on 10/02/2005 8:42:53 PM PDT by cynicom
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