There are times when commentary just seems unnecessary.
(From Sean Hannity’s interview on Fox News tonight with Sarah Palin)
Hannity: By the way for all of us in New York, where we are now, where we pay 10% income tax, you actually give every citizen in Alaska a check back.
Palin: We are the only state with a negative tax rate (Hannity looks at the camera in disbelief and envy mouthing “I’m so envious(?)”) where we don’t have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we have a share of our oil resource revenue that goes back to the people that own the resources. Imagine that.
Hannity: And it went up higher since you’ve been the governor and you negotiated with the oil companies. That all went up so people get a bigger check.
Palin: There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.
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5 minutes, and one wormhole into another dimension later…..
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Palin: If Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. Certainly that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us.
Hannity: Socialism?
Palin: Well….that is where we are headed.
1 comment:
I hate to side with Sarah here... but I don't think she contradicted herself.
From google define:socialism :
"Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society."
RE: Alaskan oil on public lands: I suppose we have collective ownership before it's pumped out of the ground. Radical libertarians would rather we auction off all public lands (and distribute the proceeds to everybody equally) to get rid of that little slice of socialism, but I don't think most people would consider government-owned-land "socialism."
But beyond that, the way Alaska handles oil revenues seems very NON-socialist. The government doesn't say how you spend your oil check, doesn't control the production or distribution of the oil, etc.
(I never got to experience getting an Alaskan Oil Check first-hand; my family moved from Anchorage in 1978).
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