It is really sad the level that some people on this conservative web-site will go to to cover-up bad behavior on the part of a Republican.
Increasing taxes is not a good thing and is unnecessary.
People seem to forget that FreeRepublic is dedicated to conservative principles, not boosting the GOP.
Sometimes the two do not go hand and hand.
Ping!
Do you think the tax rates on Alaskan oil and NG co’s are high? Or are you just being negative?
That's what happens when you have people who believe that being conservative and being Republican are the same thing.
Increasing taxes is not a good thing and is unnecessary.
It's only "good" for folks whose aim is to manipulate the behavior of others, i.e. distort the markets, something that is most definitely not "conservative" (though whether it is "neoconservative" is a different question).
People seem to forget that FreeRepublic is dedicated to conservative principles, not boosting the GOP.
See my original comment.
Actually, I don’t have a problem with what she did. We just did something similar in this country when we got our rebate checks of $600 or more from our Fed. Gov’t for the same reason, high gas prices and a bad economy. Actually, I don’t have a problem with rebates to our citizens (as long as it is fairly and equally done and it’s to those that actually pay taxes). Heck, the Fed Gov’t has no problem taking our money, so anytime we get it back is fine by me. It’s money that I can choose how to spend rather than being in the hands of the Feds who will spend or squander it in ways I don’t like. To me this is a plus. It’s like we paid less taxes, because part of what we did have to pay comes back to us directly.
Now, a windfall profit tax is a horse of a different feather, because then the money goes to the gov’t to spend, rather than back to the people. I think what Palin did here was fine. As I understand it, Alaska has the highest gas prices of any state in the U.S. I find this ironic, as they are sitting on a pile of oil, but of course, the environmental whackos and the leftist Dems won’t let anyone drill for it. What a joke.
This is one of those issues where public good and private enterprise run into a conflict. Question: Whose oil is it, the oil companies' or the people of the state of alaska.
If incomes are up an demand is up you wouldn't squeel if a landlord raised rents. Well, by increasing the taxes on oil production that is exactly what the State of Alaska is doing.