Porterhouse steak and lobster on food stamps!

[The Dude 206]

With your warped logic, people in prison are also free to make their own menu.

Sorry Danno, you fail again. We are talking about free choices here, not involuntary imprisonment. You can keep trying to force square pegs through the round hole if you like.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

And what hand out would that be ?

Translation: Rob "thinks" that getting more of YOUR money (which you earned through toil/sweat) back from the government is a "handout".

[Zero Sum 305]

I receive ZERO dollars from the Feds. Eskimo's here get free medical, dental, free flights in and out, free lodging, $1,500 of free fuel oil a year, free HUD houses, pay less than 1/4 of the value for a Commercial fishing license, same with the no interest loans for a commercial fishing boat ...and said loan is forgiven after 5 years of payments, etc...and all on the tax payers dime.

Sounds like tax payers need to leave AK and let the Eskimos have Alaska be an independent nation.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Sounds like tax payers need to leave AK and let the Eskimos have Alaska be an independent nation.

More like it's time to do it right and instead of giving the money away to a conquered people, do it right and conquer without Federal pay offs. If your going to invade and conquer, then don't be a pansy and pay off the peoples who's land you invade, do it right and conquer to the fullest.

[jundp 191]

Eskimo's what? You keep saying "Eskimo's" which is possessive. I'm just curious as to what they are possessing?

[The Dude 206]

Translation: Rob "thinks" that getting more of YOUR money (which you earned through toil/sweat) back from the government is a "handout".

Really, you're interpreting what I said now? Why don't you stick to obscure insults to people from Ontario.

More like it's time to do it right and instead of giving the money away to a conquered people, do it right and conquer without Federal pay offs. If your going to invade and conquer, then don't be a pansy and pay off the peoples who's land you invade, do it right and conquer to the fullest.

We should stop thinking of Alaska as anything more than it is, a giant oil well and natural resource mine. It's inhabitants should start paying their fair share of taxes rather than receiving an annual stipend.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

We should stop thinking of Alaska as anything more than it is, a giant oil well and natural resource mine. It's inhabitants should start paying their fair share of taxes rather than receiving an annual stipend.

who do they receive that from?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

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We should stop thinking of Alaska as anything more than it is, a giant oil well and natural resource mine. It's inhabitants should start paying their fair share of taxes rather than receiving an annual stipend.

I pay my fair share of taxes like anyone else.

As far as the annual "stipend" you mention, would that be the "Alaska Permanent Fund" checks all Alaskans receive? That money has ZERO to do with the Feds. It's our oil, and we charge the oil company's for it. No we do not "give our oil away" to the oil company's like other states do, again our oil, and if you want it, then you pay for it.

Profits from the oil tax go to all Alaskans in the form of an annual check. It's called "profit sharing" and it gets shared equally by all the residents of Alaska. It's a corporation who's investors collect the profits like any other company. Alaska raked in 3.2 billion dollars profit last year from a combination of oil taxes, and investments. The Alaska Permanent Fund is a company and ran as such. The profits are invested in the stock market, other company's, etc... that money is spread out all over the place.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

who do they receive that from?

Oil company's such as BP, Exxon, Conoco Phillips, Shell Oil, ENI, Liberty Oil, Pioneer Oil, etc...

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I pay my fair share of taxes like anyone else.

As far as the annual "stipend" you mention, would that be the "Alaska Permanent Fund" checks all Alaskans receive? That money has ZERO to do with the Feds. It's our oil, and we charge the oil company's for it. No we do not "give our oil away" to the oil company's like other states do, again our oil, and if you want it, then you pay for it.

Profits from the oil tax go to all Alaskans in the form of an annual check. It's called "profit sharing" and it gets shared equally by all the residents of Alaska. It's a corporation who's investors collect the profits like any other company. Alaska raked in 3.2 billion dollars profit last year from a combination of oil taxes, and investments. The Alaska Permanent Fund is a company and ran as such. The profits are invested in the stock market, other company's, etc... that money is spread out all over the place.

But every resident gets it correct without any action on their own? IE. I move to Alaska, do i need to do anything?

[slim 1,530]

If some of you actually shopped in the same grocery stores as folks on welfare you'd see this on a daily basis and it wouldn't be so shocking to you.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

But every resident gets it correct without any action on their own? IE. I move to Alaska, do i need to do anything?

All you have to do is be an Alaska resident for one year to qualify. And if you owe any court fee's, taxes, child support, etc...then forget about receiving any checks until it's all paid off.

The annual checks aren't anything to brag about. In a good year we hit over $2,000, and Iv'e seen years where it's been below $400.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund <----- Here's a link to it that can explain it much better than I can. It even has a list of the yearly payouts.

[jundp 191]

I think the use of apostrophes should be banned...

[ScottThuy 140]

Oil company's such as BP, Exxon, Conoco Phillips, Shell Oil, ENI, Liberty Oil, Pioneer Oil, etc...

The companies that the Govt subsidizes..

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

All you have to do is be an Alaska resident for one year to qualify. And if you owe any court fee's, taxes, child support, etc...then forget about receiving any checks until it's all paid off.

The annual checks aren't anything to brag about. In a good year we hit over $2,000, and Iv'e seen years where it's been below $400.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund <----- Here's a link to it that can explain it much better than I can. It even has a list of the yearly payouts.

Huh, it looks like its devaluing in the last decade or so.

The only reason I asked was that because the state government is responsible in doling it out without the resident doing anything - I do see it as a handout (though there is nothing wrong with that).