[normy]

So you jump a Perry thread but you rarely see Perry supporters jumping Palin threads decrying her support of a windfall profit tax on oil companies which is very left wing, or her state receiving $1.80 in federal welfare for every dollar it sends in. Perry;s Texas gets .94 back on each dollar.

Palin is no where near Perry in executive experience when you live in an insulated state so far removed from almost any actual American problem. The state is smaller than about a quarter the size of Houston population wise, taxes oil companies for revenue and receives the 3rd most federal welfare of any state.

Alaska has no income tax or sales tax. How on earth does that translate to Washington when your budget consists of Federal welfare and oil money? If she ever made it to DC she would have to adopt Rick Perry's Texas model. I promise Perry wont adopt the Alaska model because it's unrealistic

[Neu Pragmatist]

It also doesn’t help that she quit before finishing her term .

[caww]

Taxing oil in Alaska is not the same as Obama imposing a windfall tax for no reason. Alaskans OWN the natural resource per the state constitution...so the money went not only for governance etc...but straight to the people.