Palin supported and signed into law a $1.5 billion tax increase on oil companies in the form of higher severance taxes. One rule of thumb is that higher taxes cause less investment. Sure enough, State Tax Notes reported (January 7): “After ACES was passed, ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s most active oil exploration company and one of the top three producers, announced it was canceling plans to build a diesel fuel refinery at the Kuparuk oil field. ConocoPhillips blamed the cancellation on passage of ACES [the new tax]. The refinery would have allowed the company to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel onsite for its vehicles and other uses on the North Slope, rather than haul the fuel there from existing refineries.”
There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere. Perhaps I’m missing something, but I see no evidence that Palin offered any major tax cuts. She did propose sending $1.2 billion of state oil revenues to individuals and utility companies in the form of monthly payments to reduce energy bills, but that sounds like welfare to me, not tax cuts.
wow even Fox news seems to not taking the BS from Palin
LazFX
ha ha ha
spdandpwr
that video of obama being ronal rolled is strange...i mean the peoples facial expressions don't coincide with the cheering they give towards the end. i thought the crowd woulda been in silence after seeing that nonsense...and after seeing their facial expressions.
The Anderson Cooper 360 episode tonight about Palin's church that she attended for all of her life (until 2002) is frightening. To elaborate, they practice faith healing and speaking in tongues and they believe that Alaska is going to be a refuge state for the "end of days."
Q5echo
posting these is a purely objective exercise in simply getting to know Palin. take from it what you will.
Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
The Anderson Cooper 360 episode tonight about Palin's church that she attended for all of her life (until 2002) is frightening. To elaborate, they practice faith healing and speaking in tongues and they believe that Alaska is going to be a refuge state for the "end of days."
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: FFS please dont let this bitch run your country. faith healing?:whip:
Whats next? she is gonna talk about Jesus second coming?:rolleyes:
Obama likes to dance. So do most of us on this messageboard. I don't see the problem with him dancing on the campaign trail like some people are making it out to be. At least he's young enough to still dance!;)
The video is funny though. I'm sure Obama would laugh at it too.
Dj Smitty20
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Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
The Anderson Cooper 360 episode tonight about Palin's church that she attended for all of her life (until 2002) is frightening. To elaborate, they practice faith healing and speaking in tongues and they believe that Alaska is going to be a refuge state for the "end of days."
Biden has been hitting on her "extremist" views for a couple of days now and it's a fair criticism. At the same time, I see a report on CNN saying that Palin is pulling away a lot of Clinton female supporters...the so called "walmart moms".
First of all, people who supported Hilary shouldn't be shopping in Walmarts because they should know the evils of that corporation. Second, voting for Palin because Clinton isn't on the Democratic ticket is wrong on so many levels and simply indicates either a complete failure to understand political ideology or idiocy.
Lebezniatnikov
Yeah, that 360 show last night was scary. In addition to being completely unfit to deal with national issues, it's always worrisome when a politician has some truly radical religious beliefs that have a history of blending with politics.
