[thackney]

Alaska gets $1.84 back from the Feds for every $1.00 of tax revenue that it collects.

I do not believe that number includes the federal tax dollars collected from the oil companies.

Also, when most of the state is held by the federal government and not released to become income producing, it should be no surprise it takes money to support it.

Release the land, sell oil leases and collect the revenue. Keep millions of acres as Parks and Refuges and it takes money to support it.

[wtc911]

Only Mississippi and New Mexico get a better deal than Alaska.

You don't have to like it but the fact is that Alaska is a welfare state. The IRS itself put the number at $1.84 received for every $1.00 sent. Those of us in net-payer states are subsidizing Alaska.

That is the fact of it.