September 23rd, 2005 | 
Author: Yes.. I’m still ranting about Rep. Young’s Bridge. I happened to catch an interesting email that someone sent to Michelle Malkin’s site. She published in her DON YOUNG: HOG WILD story. Excerpt’s that caught my attention:
We Alaskans can afford to pay for our own bridges.
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42% of our state revenue is from oil royalties and taxes. 39% of our annual revenue is earnings from our Permanent Fund, which was created from and is funded by, that’s right, oil revenues.
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in addition, on October 12, each man, woman and child in the state will get a check for $846, representing their share of the oil wealth for the year. We pay no state individual income tax.
Alaskan’s pay no individual state income taxes? Apparently, that’s true. Looks like they don’t pay a sales tax either.
What really caught my eye was ‘each man, woman and child in the state will get a check for $846‘. Oh come on! That has to be BS right? Nope. Apparently the check is true as well. Its called the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
To top it all off, Alaska is a shall-issue carry state.
I’m living in the wrong damn state.
(yes, PA is a shall issue state as well but 1- I spend 99% of my waking time in MD and 2- Alaska’s permit has reciprocity in damn near half the country).
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I have an aunt and uncle who’ve lived in Alaska for as long as I can remember. The checks are for real. It’s not like it’s a total windfall – they do pay federal income taxes and declare their fund revenue there.
I always thought of it as the government’s way of thanking Alaskans for living in a place that for half the year is very cold and unrelentingly dark.
Since posting that I’ve also discovered that many areas of Alaska also have NO property tax. So lets recap; no state income tax, no sales tax, possibly no property tax and five checks for $825 (per person in my family). I can wear a jacket.
Besides, I’m not talking about Nome or Fairbanks. More like Juneau or even farther south (isn’t that much farther North than other parts of the US (like Maine))