USA Today:
"Alaskans hit the annual oil jackpot today — and it was a gusher. Every man, woman and child in the 49th state will receive $3,269, their cut of the state's yearly oil wealth, plus a special cash bonus to offset soaring fuel costs. In all, 610,768 people are receiving the payouts.
Total purse: $1,996,600,592.
The oil royalty works out to $2,069 and the fuel rebate $1,200.
"The royalty dollars that flow through the state are the people's wealth," said Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, standing in for Gov. Sarah Palin, who was out campaigning with Sen. John McCain. "The $1,200 resource rebate goes to that philosophy."
What I want to know is why Oklahoma can not do the same thing? Now I realize that every dollar that an Alaskan gets is a dollar more that oil cost us down in the lower 49. Alaskans have added 2 billion dollars worth of cost to the contiguous 48 by taxing oil at its source.
Rather than berating them for their greed and anti-American behavior, I want to know why Oklahoma hasn't done the same thing with our oil and gas. Yes, we produce less oil than Alaska, and we have more people, but if we followed Alaska's lead and used their same formula each Oklahoman would still get about $900 per capita per year! That's a rough estimate give or take a few hundred bucks. Me and my wife would have $1,800 to vacation with, or to buy that new HD TV, or to buy a plane ticket to Alaska.
So Mr. Governor Of Oklahoma, why can't you live up to the level of the Alaska Governor? I want my windfall bonus. Don't let these out-of-State Carpetbaggers take our natural resource without paying for it! Tax Devon and Kerr, and Chesapeake, and Mesa and and and shit well even me. I've got a thousandth of a percent of one oil well. But I'll take that little bit of tax on me to screw the rest of America to get more money. Come on Oklahoma get on the band wagon soak the people of the east and west coast tax our State oil and gas output and them durn pipelines that run all over the place, dang it!
Hell, I may run for Oklahoma Governor my own self. If I can promise every man, woman, and child $900 a year if they would vote forme, I could get elected. I mean nobody has ever heard of me, but all I would have to do is put up yard signs that simply say : I'll Pay You and Yours $3,600 Each Over the Next Four Years to VOTE LOBOJO! I'll drop the DR cause I want them to think of me a common as dirt folk.
Let's tax em while they got it.
Who will support me out there?
7 comments:
Ya got my vote!
Thanks for your vote. Say Sarah really hit on a way to get 80% approval rating. I wonder what's being considered in the back rooms of the Oil companies? Do they try to buy her? Do they do her in?
Up this way, we dug up 165 tons of pure gold over the years. Any chance we get a tie tack instead of slag piles and creeks full of mercury? As for sooner country,
Lobojo in '08!
BB, we did the same shit with Zinc. We now have the number one most toxic super fund site.
We tried a tax on the oil industry to reclaim old well sites, but they jumped ahead of that, and they are fully behind that now with their own volunteer recovery program.
Say, next time you fill up you tank, just think about those certain pennies of yours going to support the annual Alaskan Oil Money spending orgy. Walmart thanks you.
Say, I found the historical annual payouts to the people under the Alaska Permanent Fund. No friggin wonder they love Sarah. Can anyone say Bread and Circus?
Year Amount
2008 $3,269.00*
2007 $1,654.00
2006 $1,106.96
2005 $845.76
2004 $919.84
2003 $1,107.56
2002 $1,540.76
2001 $1,850.28
2000 $1,963.86
1999 $1,769.84
1998 $1,540.88
1997 $1,296.54
1996 $1,130.68
1995 $990.30
1994 $983.90
1993 $949.46
1992 $915.84
1991 $931.34
1990 $952.63
1989 $873.16
1988 $826.93
1987 $708.19
1986 $556.26
1985 $404.00
1984 $331.29
1983 $386.15
1982 $1,000.00
Say Governor Henry do you get the message!
I don't think that the oil companies mind the pay-outs to the Alaskan people. Heck, I assume that's why most Alaskans want to open up exploration in previously prohibited areas. Wouldnt you? More oil: More money!
Does Oklanhoma have any prime, untapped wilderness to sell out? if so, you could probably get the oil companies behind it.
"Does Oklanhoma have any prime, untapped wilderness to sell out?"
Well, about half our populations have minds in that catagory but I think selling them out, well that's probably unethical.
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