newroark will only be happy when Ayn Rand rises from the dead and is chosen as the veep pick by Harry Brown.
And the Alaska Journal of Commerce talks about the $1200 rebate — so, yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, or Santa Clausette as the case may be:
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/081708/oil_20080817028.shtml
So, have I done enough heavy lifting on the ‘do your research for you’ front that anyone would care to address the policy implications of Governor Palin’s positions on these matters?
Heh heh.
But seriously, let's review.
Newroark claimed that Palin doubled taxes on oil operators in Alaska.
That's completely false.
He linked to an article on hotair which quotes the complaints of a PR flak for BP.
BP is the company whose shoddy work caused a corroded pipeline that created at 200,000+ gallon oil spill in Alaska.
Translation: they're really bad tenants.
Governor Palin backed legislation to increase BP's corporate tax from 22.5% to 25% - I'm not sure what math translates that to a "doubling" of tax.
That's still quite low by almost any jurisdiction's standards, and after this tax bill was passed, Alaska was still named 4th best state in the nation by The Tax Foundation - an anti-tax watchdog organization.
Alaska, as most people know, pays its inhabitants a dividend each year from their profits as part owners of the state's oil fields.
In 2008, Governor Palin increased this by $1200 to reflect the increased pipeline revenue the state was earning.
Basically, Sarah Palin raised the rent 10% on the extremely lucrative property BP and ConocoPhilips are leasing from the state of Alaska.
She's a smart asset manager and is getting a better yield from the portfolio of state assets that it's her job to run.