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To: BfloGuy

Reportedly the Iraqi minister of finance is setting up a system to distribute 25 percent of oil profits directly to the Iraqi people. This has been done in some of the Gulf states for years.

http://theiraqidinar.com/news/araji-surplus-of-oil-revenues-to-be-distributed-on-iraqi-people-171533


18 posted on 10/09/2012 5:15:23 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Reportedly the Iraqi minister of finance is setting up a system to distribute 25 percent of oil profits directly to the Iraqi people.

It's not altogether different from what Alaska does, either. It strikes me, though, as a sort of welfare check [same as Alaska's.]

I'd have liked to see the Iraqis give ownership of the oil industry to the people. Create a private corporation and issue shares of stock to each citizen. That would have given everyone a stake in its performance and would have curtailed the government's ability to play shenanigans with oil money.

It is only through private ownership that countries can escape the oil "curse."

21 posted on 10/10/2012 2:46:54 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Teach a man to fish and you lose a Democratic voter.)
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