We should be paid not taxed! The officials should WORK for us and earn a profit and put the money in a fund and pay like these;
The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.
In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.
Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
Source(s):
Hoover Institution
Kuwait:
Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz
It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.
Pollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, Bush and many others you wouldn’t know.
Clinton “was too busy moving the country forward”
Gore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working on our energy problem”
Newt “promised his full support” To sell to Ga. Power for a .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this tech
I have letters from these crumbs saying this!
Sam was to busy with Armed Services he just brushed me off real fast!
Mason Wiggins aide to Congressman Walker of the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee said “ this appears to be the secret we’ve been looking for” he took it to friends in the DOE. DOE management found it had come in the back door and threw 100% clean electric power 1000 times more electric power than the largest Nuclear plant.
The Bush administration has refused all attempts at communication. They have returned no calls and answered no emails.
I told everyone in the government that when the US was supplied to overabundance. The power plants would be built to supply the world and when all the power bills came back to the US. I wanted to take 1/3 of the profit divide it and pay every US citizen what I call a National Income Program. When working at capacity this could be $50,000 dollars per year for every US citizen.
If Alaska pays
Kuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses
Dubai pays
I’ve read Norway does something like this
I’ve read Nigeria is working on a fund to pay the people also
Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities.
With all the commodities in your state.
Why can’t your state pay you?
With the resources the feds can’t they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?
We need a new National Income Party to do this;
1st90 days by ExOrder
End income taxes;fund the Gov right way,not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance budget,officials not paid till done
Regular people for elected officials no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists take money out of politics
Make graft illegal mandatory jail time
Close DOE save money
Take Gov out of schools PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for war,make exit plan with military
Prisoners work for jail costs not us save money
Foreign tax cheats pay tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals get on tax roles not us
Private SS accounts makes us millionaires no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power make millions of high wage jobs
Build electric powered roads millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean polluted water with power
Pay not tax make national earth rights like Alaska
Return America to 50% of world’s economy
The dems and reps have all the power and all the control.
Shouldn’t they bear all the responsibility for their mismanagement?
It is time to take America back for the people.
VOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they’re not a democrat or republican!
If our founding father were alive today.
They would lay siege to DC tar and feather ALL the officials.
Then hang them on the steps for all to see the consequences of screwing Americans!!
If we continue to ask for truth, then refuse to listen.
Mankind will forever, be doomed to destruction.
There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
2006-06-18 18:20:15
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The democrats only want the power- and the taxes will go sky high...The Democrats really are fragmented and in disarray.
We saw this late last month when their Joan of Arc, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, gave a perfectly sensible speech -- at least for her. The next day all hell broke loose, and it broke loose against her. Hillary has been the Democrats' leading presidential hope since roughly 2002.
In 2001, right after the Clintons were both being blamed for the pedaling of presidential pardons, the trashing of the White House by the Clinton staff, and the pilfering of White House property by the couple themselves, Hillary's approval rating had plummeted to 38%. The New York Times was calling for congressional investigations. The New York Observer was calling on Sen. Clinton to resign. Topics of White water and so many people mysteriously dieing while the clintons were in office, I think the total is over 70 deaths, this should not be overlooked...
2006-06-19 01:09:59
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answered by fscape444 2
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Depends on how much Bush spends. So far, just on the war we have spent: http://kristonia-ink.com/Blog/ (see the ticker on the right side bar).
You can't blame the next president for higher taxes... we are in more debt now than ever and the dollar cannot compete on a global market.
The Presidential Administration wants to blame the underprivilaged for higher taxes but this administration is using the military as personal oil mercenaries and that is more expensive than any domestic spending we have.
2006-06-19 00:41:23
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answered by Kristonia 3
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To pay for all you mention and a wealth of new programs that "Big Brother" will provide for our benefit, I would say 5-7% higher tax rates will likely be the norm for anyone earning (that's right liberals, I said earning) a nice living.
How much is enough?
How much can be tolerated before the incentive to earn more is completely eroded?
2006-06-19 00:58:40
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answered by Anonymous
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THEY WILL RAISE IT AS HIGH AS THEY CAN
1. KIDS SHOULDN'T HAVE KIDS IF THEY CANT PAY FOR IT
2.IF THEY DON'T LIKE TO WORK THEN I GUESS THEY CAN BE BROKE
3. CRIMINALS DON'T NEED THERAPY THEY NEED TO BE LOCKED UP OR SHOT
4. WHO CARES ABOUT MONGOLIAN ROCK LIZARDS
2006-06-19 00:48:06
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answered by MIKE B 4
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They will only raise it on the rich; you know those with jobs actually paying taxes. Look up who pays our taxes, and you will see that nearly 1/2 of the country does not pay a dime in federal taxes....that group won't get raised a bit...but the rest of us will.
2006-06-19 00:54:45
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answered by netjr 6
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I am glad you asked. Because this president insist on tax cuts in a time of war. A TIME Of War!
This is unheard of but you don't care........
Anti Terror funding in New York is severly underfunded......but of course you don't care you need that extra two dollars for your chewin tabacco
You think deficit spending is great....it is fiscally responible.
It is not fair to debate you because it is too easy.
2006-06-19 01:01:35
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answered by nefariousx 6
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It could be any amount, but besides the president, it also depends on the composition of congress.
2006-06-19 00:38:38
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answered by Brent 2
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