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Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money
merbs writes: Alaska’s Permanent Fund was established in 1976, in the midst of a black gold rush; the massive Trans-Alaska pipeline was in the process of being built, and the state had reaped $900 million in revenue from the sale of drilling leases in Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America, in a matter of years. In a matter of a few more, it’d spent it. Alaskans soon recognized that their enormous oil reserves were nonetheless limited, so, with a kind of longterm forward-thinking rarely seen in politics today, they voted to add an amendment to the state constitution to establish a fund that would protect a portion of all incoming oil wealth for future generations. In 2014, the net income of the fund was $6.8 billion dollars and the dividend doled out $1,884 to 640,000 citizens, despite a decline in oil revenues that year.
And Alaska living isn't easy or cheap.
They are royalties for resources held in the ground which are government property, not free money. Who else has a better claim to it, than the owners of the land, i.e., the people.
We paid for it when purchased under President Johnson, at the behest of Seward.
In communism you have money, but nothing to buy with it on the shelves. In capitalism the shelves are always choke full but you don't have money.
How can the reader tell when a word is a Proper Noun, Trademarked, etc; or when it is an Ordinary Word? I've complained about this before and some have claimed that the slashdot way is always used by journalists. Well that's not true and here is proof. Slashdot's way is stupid and unconscionable. Look at this summary extracted from today's headlines at Google news. Note the familiar publisher's names and how they handle capitalization in titles:
Dozens of coalition troops die in Houthi missile strike in Yemen ... ...
CNN
Finnish PM's offer to migrants: Take my spare house
STLtoday.com
Protests Continue in Southern Syrian City
Voice of America
47 dead as rebels battle IS in north Syria: monitor
Financial Express
Vast, stubborn Fresno wildfire expected to rage through long weekend
Los Angeles Times
What have Bush, Clinton learned from voters attraction to the outsiders?
Washington Post
Police pay respects to slain Texas lawman
Brownsville Herald
Plainclothes cops keep eye out for Times Square hustlers
seattlepi.com
No more union coal mines remain in Kentucky, home of the deadly battles of
Fox Business
Jobless rate falls to 5.1%, a 7-year low
NWAOnline
New England's ports, long past their prime, seek comeback with niches in
Fox Business
Advisory Group Says BofA Should Split CEO and Chairman Roles
New York Times
Apple will show a lot more than iPhones at its September event
Mashable
Google may return to China with Android app shop: report
Livemint
Uber Expires Share Your ETA Links After 48 Hours
I4U News
Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell wins court case against Bungie
Load The Game
Farthest-ever 3.2-billion-years old galaxy detected
The Indian Express
Scientists hunt for clues in mysterious deaths of 60000 antelopes in four days
Christian Science Monitor
Predator population grows slowly in crowded environment: Study
NYC Today
University of Kansas Researchers Discover Quark-Gluon Plasma
NYC Today
Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in three states, 8 people died in Illinois
The Standard Daily
Scientists working on making a gadget to cure seasickness
Nature World Report
CDC is funding to help state health department to eradicate painkiller abuse
The Standard Daily
Take Aspirin to boost your immunotherapy treatment during cancer
PPP Focus.com
...omphaloskepsis often...
Don't forget Wall St. We have been artificially holding interest rates at 0 for 7 years now just to give an enormous boost to the financial industries. That far exceeds the dividend to Alaskans. Nobody is making any noise about that.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Where the hell do you live that welfare/disability pays enough to buy endless beer and meth? I know a couple of people on disability and they have a fuck of a time just eating satisfactorily, little well being able to buy more then a 6 pack of beer once a month.
There's also one fuck of a lot of homeless people around and they sure don't look like they're having a great life, especially when the weather turns to shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Socialism means that the factories (means of production) belong to the state. This is not the case in Denmark, so your use of the word socialism is ignorant and incorrect.
I'm an American, and I find that the Trotskyites here call anything they don't like - "socialism". It's...... complex, some how.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I'm an American, and I find that the Trotskyites here call anything they don't like - "socialism". It's...... complex, some how.
When Americans say socialism, they usually mean taxes. Typically they disregard how society indirectly provides benefits like a skilled labor pool, infrastructure and other foundations for modern civilization that enabled their company to make millions in profit. They only narrowly look at the government services they've directly consumed and want their tax bill to match. In fact they might actually argue their tax rate should be lower because a millionaire is still just one man and doesn't consume services in proportion to his income, so they'd rather have a small government and pay themselves. "Socialists" are everybody who want more taxes, progressive taxes, inheritance tax, wealth tax, taxes for welfare, taxes for universal services, taxes for public services or really any form of tax that would redistribute wealth from the rich for the common good. Basically any accumulation of wealth is their own and society has no right to any of it, though those who say that typically want protection of private property and contracts, police, courts and all the other bits that happen to be necessary to keep a large personal fortune. I'm sure it's a coincidence.
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