Comments on: Alaskans Cash In On Annual Dividend

State Residents To Get Record $3,269 In Oil Royalties And Payouts To Offset Fuel Prices

[ubrew12]

Palin''s state gets MORE MONEY from the Federal Government (per tax dollar they send back), than ANY STATE IN THE NATION.

Palin''s state gets FIVE TIMES the amount given to Blue States California or New Jersey. In fact, ALL the Red States are this way. They typically take MORE from the Federal Government than they GIVE by way of taxes, while the BLUE states typically get LESS from the Federal gov''t than they give in taxes.

Makes you wonder... who the REAL welfare queens of America are..

[jmurrieta1]

"Unemployment Rate Hits 5-Year High
Reaches 6.1 Percent In August; Employers Slash 84,000 Jobs, Labor Department Reports"


So move to Alaska folks! They get nice fat payouts from the oil companies (read citizens who buy gas) and the U.S. taxpayer up there!

I''m sure those loyal Americans in Alaska will be glad to share!

[nphipps2]

fraud and prosecution happen all the time and people are busted. this is a very long formula for how this calculated and it has been paid to us Alaskans on our resources for over 20 years. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Palin. Many a legislator has tried to tap into the fund but that is why it is called the "PERMANENT FUND" and was created so long ago. Most of the money comes from the INVESTMENTS of the Fund -- stock market, etc.

[jmurrieta1]

Strange how my comment that Alaska was about the biggest welfare recipient in the USA, and that all Palin want is more payoffs from the oil company,
was removed by CBS.

[martin9p2]

Sarah Putin shares a philosophy with George W -- try to bankrupt the treasury in order to be politcially popular. That''s EXACTLY what we don''t need in Washington, EXACTLY the kind of *** that has bankrupted the federal government both financially and morally.

[dakotaclark]

Hmmm...

I wonder how much of this annual money seeps into the lower 48 states.

You know, where relatives in Alaska are willing to state that Pat or Cliff, (who actually live in Seattle or Detroit or Los Angeles), live in Sleetmute or some other place in Alaska.

For some, that would be worth a trip home to Alaska each year, to get that annual payment for each member of the family...

Gee, that might be like getting a paid vacation.

Of course, that would be outright fraud; but, would that be illegal and would it be prosecuted?

I certainly hope there are measures to guard against things like that from happening.

[pvperson]

Guy_In_SB, who do you think PAYS for that Alaskan stipend? We do, at the gas pump. Do you really think Exxon or BP or whoever just accepts higher costs, no they pad them into higher gas prices PLUS a little more for the trouble. Did you miss that Exxon declared a record profit for the, what 5th time in a row?

[momof2or]

Palin is bought off by the oil companies, just like Bush 1 & 2, Cheney..most of the republican party. The choice of Palin shows a lack of judgement and maturity on McCains part. Not what we need in the white house.

[whitemale08]

what about a bunch of uneducated people.... it has nothing to do with the current price of oil. It has everything to do with oil prices averages over a 5 year period and then invested on the stock market and a percentage is returned to residents... it has nothing to do with Palin. It began over 20 years ago.


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Posted by nphipps2 at 08:27 PM : Sep 05, 2008--

You right about that,

The formula that''s used by Republicans to take credit for things people like would make Obama the hero of the civil rights bill since he was born around the same year!

[nphipps2]

what about a bunch of uneducated people.... it has nothing to do with the current price of oil. It has everything to do with oil prices averages over a 5 year period and then invested on the stock market and a percentage is returned to residents... it has nothing to do with Palin. It began over 20 years ago.

[gce65]

Even if Alaskans do get $3K each it''s certainly not likely to go far.
I''d be chopping wood all summer, driving and using as little gasoline as possible, hunting moose and caribou and deer, stockpiling as much salmon as possible and hunkering down for long, cold winter.
You people need a few more nuclear power plants!

[whitemale08]

that''s a good point, and Obama needs to hammer that over and over and over again.

because what Republicans want to do is turn us into a 3rd world country like Mexico who the majority of its people do not share the oil wealth because the majority of it is exported to the "world oil markets".

That''s the real agenda of Republicans; to destroy the "middle-class" and turn us all into serfs so we can live and squaller and be ridiculed by the "lucky few" for not "pulling yourself up by your own boot-straps" when you don''t even have any boots!

[ioweign]

So Alaska and Venezuela have a lot in common, both leaders look alike...

[gce65]

No wonder Palin is so popular in Alaska currently. The higher oil prices go and the more the rest of America suffers because of it, the more Alaskans profit.

Keep in mind the oil Alaska produces doesn''t come to America and help the supply; it gets sold on the world oil market.

[caldwellptr]

"People must live in Alaska one calendar year to qualify."
This is not true. You must prove you not only have lived there one calendar year but also that you intend to live there in the coming year(s).

[guy_in_sb]

Please add this:

This large surplus this year exists because Palin passed a tax increase on oil that drove the state''s take from $4 billion per year to $10 billion per year. The marginal tax rate increases with the price of oil, and was recently over 75% when oil hit $140 per barrel.