[Clyde5445]

“And did not state govt. spending rise under Gov. Palin?”

NO it didn’t!!!!

Spending actually declined under Gov. Palin.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Does Alaska have an official site with the yearly numbers?

According to this site:

2005 - 6.9 billion
2006 - 7.4 billion
2007 - 7.8 billion
2008 - 8.6 billion
2009 - 8.9 billion
2010 - 9.5 billion

You can figure out when Palin was actually Governor, every time I try to match these to her term someone yells at me that I'm doing it wrong. But clearly the budget went up every year from 2006-2010, so obviously spending increased under Gov. Palin.

Note that since government spending in Alaska includes the tax money from oil companies that is distributed to individuals, it may be that there are subsets of spending that decreased during her time in office.