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Palin: Uninspiring Tax Policy Record
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| 8/29/08
Posted on 09/04/2008 6:57:35 AM PDT by steve-b
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posted on
09/04/2008 6:57:35 AM PDT
by
steve-b
To: steve-b
Obviously, this guy isn’t an economist.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:03:49 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: steve-b
Why would I be surprised the LIBERAL Cato institute that has a LIBERAL dog in this fight would call her tax policies uninspiring.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:05:03 AM PDT
by
jrooney
(Obama's mentor says God Da*n America. That explains Obama's refusal to put his hand over his heart.)
To: steve-b
There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere.
Those $1,200 tax rebate checks constitute a pretty serious (though one time) tax cut. Severance taxes are more like user fees. The oil companies are taking a resource out of ground that they don't own . . . fine. It is not unreasonable to get a fair value for it.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:06:41 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: steve-b
Weak to quite weak analysis here, brought to you by: Cato - The Gay Marriage People!(TM).
What is a severance tax? A tax on extraction of commodities from one state for resale in another state.
ConocoPhilips' canceled project was for a refinery that was - to quote the source - "to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel onsite for its vehicles and other uses on the North Slope, rather than haul the fuel there from existing refineries."
Question: How does a severance tax apply to diesel that is being extracted in Alaska for use in Alaska?
Answer: It doesn't.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:07:20 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: jrooney
I like Palin too but are you saying that anyone who criticizes her tax record is “LIBERAL?” Neither Obama or Palin should be treated as perfect messiahs. No politician deserves that status.
To: jrooney
Why would I be surprised the LIBERAL Cato institute that has a LIBERAL dog in this fight would call her tax policies uninspiring. no LIBERAL but LIBERTARIAN. Think Bob Barr.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:08:09 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: jrooney
Why would I be surprised the LIBERAL Cato institute that has a LIBERAL dog in this fight would call her tax policies uninspiring.You said exactly what I was thinking when I started to read this tripe.
In Alaska thanks to the Governor, they don't have to pay gasoline taxes for a year. Are any of the rest of our states doing the same thing? Not in Oklahoma that's for sure -- they wanted to raise ours which was defeated!
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:08:10 AM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
( VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! McCainNow.com; LetsGetThisRight.com)
To: jrooney
It's my understanding that the Cato Institute is libertarian, not liberal.
To: SoCal Pubbie
It's my understanding that the Cato Institute is libertarian, not liberal.It's my knowledge that the Cato Institute is hard left on social issues - while supporting libertarian economic policies.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:10:02 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: Vaquero
When I think Bob Barr I think ACLU and I think out of control ego. Nuf ced.
To: steve-b
There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see no evidence that Palin offered any major tax cuts. I guess this jackass missed the part where Alaska HAS NO PERSONAL INCOME TAX OR STATE SALES TAX.
It's impossible to cut taxes that don't exist!
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:14:38 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Captain Kirk
I like Palin too but are you saying that anyone who criticizes her tax record is "LIBERAL?" The last few days have left me with a profound mystery -- how can some people fling so much feces while living on a steady diet of Kool-Aid?
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:16:48 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: steve-b
There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere.A. it sounds like she did. B. The CATO institute needs to do a clean up of their own idiot staff. They are supposed to be something like intellectual sophisticated and honest, even though they are really another bunch of K street lobbyists trying to get taxes reduced - not for you and me - but for their paying clients, BIG OIL.
Q. Why do you tax companies. A. It's like robbing banks. That is where the money is.
The real question about taxes, as Milton Friedman used to remind us, is whether or not we are getting out money's worth. Well, we aren't. But that isn't the part CATO is worried about.
BTW does anyone see the oxymoronic nature of a libertarian lobbyist group, of never done anything in their lives quasi-academics.
To: wideawake
Libertarians ARE “left” on “social issues”, ie, they are libertines. They believe in no laws restricting individual behavior as long as that behavior doesn’t affect others.
Unfortunately, most “victimless” behaviors DO have an effect on others.
Personally, I think if we’d go about one generation where there were no “social programs” that alleviated the consequences for dumbass personal behaviorial decisions, there wouldn’t need to be any laws regarding those behaviors.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:17:37 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: PhiKapMom; jrooney
In Alaska thanks to the Governor, they don't have to pay gasoline taxes for a year. Not to mention that there is no state personal income tax or state sales tax. But I see that these facts aren't mentioned. Alaska actually has a NEGATIVE tax rate for individuals, how can that possibly be considered "uninspiring"?
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:18:10 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: AndyJackson
Rants about BIG OIL? Did I somehow get connected to barackisthemessiah.com?
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:19:54 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: steve-b
ok but they will love her stand on AGW and ANWR
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:22:14 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(You better think think about what you're trying to do to me)
To: steve-b
Yeah, I guess the $500,000,000 she cut out of the Alaska state budget her first year in office doesn’t matter, either.
The Cato Cailin Institute needs to bone up on its basic economics skills.
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posted on
09/04/2008 7:22:21 AM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
To: steve-b
Palin has offered a few narrow or minor tax breaks, including: A tax credit for film production in the state, offering about $20 million per year in breaks. A cut in an annual business license fee from $100 to $25 (the legislature went half way to $50). A one-year suspension of the state fuel tax to save taxpayers about $40 million. A repeal of tire taxes to save taxpayers $2 million. A tax credit for commercial salmon harvesting to save taxpayers about $2 million. Where did CATO find this bloviating dweeb. He should be a liberal. A cut in business license fees is only a cut that affects everyone who has a small business (CATO is for that isn't it?). Tire taxes (I guess that doens't help Alaskans who all go to work on dog sleds). Salmon fishing - aren't fishing boat owners sort of the definition of a small business.
Well, CATO just flushed its rep down the toilet.
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