I hope N. Dakota doesn’t raise the ire of the The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They might find some damn frog to designate as “endangered” and bring it all to a halt. The US.FWS already has its claws in Louisiana over some stupid frog.
Anu K. Mittal, the Government Accountability Office's director of Natural Resources and Environment, testified before Congress that the Green River Formation may have as much as 3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. "This is an amount about equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves," she noted.
North Dakota is drilling oil fields. Barack Obama would rather drill taxpayers.
Drill, Dakota, Drill ping
This is the BIGGEST GOOD NEWS story AMERICA could hope for!
Energy Independence...Jobs Galore!
Our side needs to pound the message home that we don't need to be energy poor and dependent on the A-Hole Arabs!
My God! Why don't I hear fireworks and jubilation.
Let's go to work America. Let's capture our energy resources and embrace GROWTH and PROSPERITY!
If it passes the real estate values will go through the roof. Investors will flock to the state to pick up some no overhead property.
Just checked here:
http://results.sos.nd.gov/resultsSW.aspx?text=BQ&type=SW&map=CTY
Looks like ballot measure 2 (the property tax measure) is going down to defeat hard: early results are 21% for, 78% against.
Guess North Dakotans want to keep those property taxes....
When I left North Dakota to be stationed in DC my property taxes in Grand Forks were more than the actual mortgage payments.
Eliminating this would be a great idea.
Killing Property Taxes would be the most horrible of outcomes!!!
As nice as it sounds, eliminating local taxation, eliminates any incentive for a local community to control it’s spending: We can always look to the state to cover our increasing costs.
Need fifty firefighters - no problem: want to be sure that all teachers have no more than 15 students per class - no problem, etc, etc. No local incentive to control a budget!
If North Dakota really wants to help residents of the town and cities: decrease or eliminate the income tax; then lower the sales tax; then after fully funding public sector pensions (which should also be cut); if money is left over then consider assisting local government.
Once a town has no property tax, it will be next to impossible to both control spending or reinstitute a property tax when needed!
Drill baby, drill!
I just love IBD. You'd never catch the WSJ referring to every word out of The Won's teleprompter as "the self-serving falsehood it is."
We’ve seen quite a few obfuscations of the issue, because most people with time and money for politics are dependent on government for their incomes. Property taxes go to the states and are, in part, administered by the states.
We’ll continue to be outnumbered and “outclassed” in politics by socialists in both parties and in every level of government (including local socialist regulators), until government is forced to cut spending by bond collapse, repudiation and currency readjustment. Become more self-sufficient. Avoid buying anything that you don’t really need.
Note to New York: FRACKING YOUR WAY TO FRICKING PROSPERITY!!!
Dear censor, please point out the objectionable portion of the above.