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moose eater
Comparing Norway to Alaska, as an example of competent less-corrupt leadership, Norway flat-taxed their oil, and had a handle on the often-related corruption that goes hand-in-hand with doing business with the likes of BP, Conoco, Exxon, Standard, and the rest of the arms of the mafia of the oil patch.
When we were trying to undo the freebies granted to the Major Producers by our former, oily and corrupt as hell, Governor Sean Parnell, via his SB21, and our efforts toward the referendum, Parnell went to Norway, working apparently on behalf of the Oilies (as opposed to working for us), and urged Norway's government to decrease their flat-tax, as it was making us look like the whores we were and are. They were taxing the Oilies at a 78% cumulative rate; very low in contrast to places like Uzbekistan, which, at that time, was up near a 98% cumulative, all-inclusive rate.
When he departed Norway, instead of lowering their flat-tax on the Oilies, they increased it to about 81% cumulative rate.
These rates include property taxes, severance taxes (which basically is the sale of the oil), and royalties.
In Iraq, Saddam had booted BP from the Ramallah Fields over their greed and corruption, but our dishonest, propaganda-based invasion had BP re-enter those fields, under contract with the newer, U.S.-imposed government, and they went to work on contract (as opposed to operating under direct investment) and were/are producing oil there for all of all of an average of $1.42 in profit per bbl.
Under our current SB21 give-way, Conoco Philips is netting $25 profit per bbl in Alaska, even with low oil prices currently, as opposed to $11 per barrel, their second highest per bbl net profit any place else they work.
Norway started their version of our Permanent Fund 20 years after ours (!!!!), and they now have close to $1 Trillion in it.
We are scrambling here in Alaska to make sure our PF even survives, and the corrupt motherfuckers like Parnell, Dunleavy, and their Oily masters, effectively have us fighting each other over crumbs, when, had we publicly executed the corrupt motherfuckers who led us to where we are, and live streamed the proceedings, making examples of the pricks, instead of our 'leadership' wining and dining them, and taking envelopes of cash in back-room bribes, we could've had enough nest egg here to provide everything our children would've needed, literally, for generations to come.
Alaska's misguided following of sold-out representation in favor of the newer version of the globalist robber barons & corporatists, is a -very- sore point with me. I look forward to the day that I encounter some of these pricks in a restaurant or bar, up close and personal. I have a message for them. In many cases I have the memory of an elephant.
We imprisoned 9 of the legislative scum back around 2007, but we didn't get enough of them, and we knew it then. it was only the tip of the iceberg. An -NO- Oily execs got prosecuted, though they were looking hard at Jim Bowles of Conoco for a conspiracy beef, who was on FBI digital audio-video recordings, sitting in a room at the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, listening to Billy Allen of VECO fame, explaining who they'd bribed in the legislature, and to what end.
Bowles was later taken out by a poorly-timed avalanche while skiing. Dying, suffocating, alone and cold, was too good for the bastard.
Shame the motherfucker didn't suffer through a bad high carb diet and poor health care during incarceration, though he'd have, no doubt, been sent to a federal country club.
I figure that whether it's Wall St. thieves, or the folks described above, they barely do their own fucking, and most certainly are incapable of doing their own fighting. That's the place to nail the miscreants; an alley, in the dark, with a solid memory of who they are, and what they did to our kids, and stream that shit on FB, asking their compadre's if they want a dose too..
