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...difficult for Americans in the Lower 48 to fully grasp how much Alaskans benefit from their state's vast oil and gas deposits. Alaska is home to just over 20% of the nation's proven oil deposits and almost 18% of its natural-gas reserves. About 90% of the state's public revenue comes from oil and gas royalty receipts. Alaskans pay no state income or state sales tax. Instead, they receive an annual dividend from the state treasurer that comes directly from the oil industry. Over the past 25 years, the average Alaskan has received roughly $1,200 from...
Kinsley's essay left me wondering why a woman, with a history of doing her very best for the people who elected her at both local and state levels, would be suspected of becoming partisan once elected to national office? It seems to me that Alaskan Governor Palin would be just the person to help do for America what she has done for Alaska and Wasilla: increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else...
...Opposed legislation to preserve Alaskan wilderness, along with most Alaskans, in 1979. The legislation passed...
...Blocked U.S. Postal Service efforts to charge more for mail in the Alaskan bush in 1992, forcing the service to raise rates across the entire country...
...Wore an Incredible Hulk neck tie to the Senate floor in 2005 to advocate for drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. Despite saying that he was owed votes from other Senators for deals he had made with them in the past, the measure failed. Stevens called the legislation's defeat "the saddest day of my life...