Posted on 09/20/2011 2:09:29 PM PDT by SMGFan
Most Alaska residents will soon be getting a check for $1,174 simply because they live there.
Each person's share of the state's vast oil wealth was announced with much fanfare in Anchorage Tuesday, with Gov. Sean Parnell ripping open a gold-colored envelope to reveal the number. This day is so widely anticipated in Alaska that the announcement of the Permanent Fund Dividend amount was carried live on television statewide, and dozens tuned in to watch a live webcast by the governor's office.
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AK is the anti-IL.
It oughta be 11 thousand.
Liquor and lottery sales will be booming!
It could be so much more too.
No Thanks to Norm Coleman.
Alaska is a special case but lots of other places could use similar methods to gain support for drilling.
For instance we could lift the great lakes drilling ban and great eliminate state taxes in the great lakes states to spur business.
You betcha!!!
I personally do not see anything wrong with this.
In fact, I think other states, every state, should pay its state resident citizens to live there.
This year’s check is the smallest since 2006 and $107 less than last year’s amount, which was $1,281. Parnell warned the amount could diminish more in the future, given market volatilities and the fact that oil production in the state is declining.
Yay, they can finally afford to buy a gallon of milk!
We love our lakes and won’t let anything happen to them. Where better to support drilling.
Besides, directional drilling would keep rigs 1000 or more feet from the lakes themselves.
This is the answer to the NIMBY crowd.
They also give the money to the kids and the parents save it for college. At least the good ones not in economic trouble do.
Terrible, proven-bad Gov. Romney, in another of his “hit and runs”
managed to even raise taxes on New Hampshire residents
while Gov. of Massachusetts. Yes its true. ... and that is beyond RomneyCARE
== Believe it or not.
How Romney is that?
The wife and mine is going to fill up our home heating oil tank. Yeah!
Cost of living up here is rough boys and girls. Not complaining mind you. Keeps the riff-raff out! :-)
My old neighbor Walt, (who homesteaded his place in 1942) use to tell me that Jay Hammond (the bush socialist) and who started the Perm Fund originally wanted to invest 50% of the money rather than 10% what the legislature agreed to; just imagine all the problems that would have caused.
Appears to be an AR-10 with an ACOG.
The last one in post #17 resting in the Moose rack has an A2 flashhider and looks to be an AR 15.
Nice! I’m one of those who struck out this year. Better luck next time I guess...
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