by Teh Nutroots | She might call Obama a socialist---but it turns out that socialism-hating real Americans who support Palin are in the tank for an ACTUAL wealth-spreading collectivist. From The New Yorker:
For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields.
The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist. (emphasis added)
Give them this: east coast elitists (like everyone writing at The New Yorker) know what words actually mean.
As does Wonkette:
SARAH THE MARXIST: She takes the oil companies’ hard-earned money and “redistributes” it to shiftless Alaskans!....That means every Alaskan gets $3,269 a year from the State, just for living and breathing on that lost and frigid tundra, and that is also why she is America’s most popular governor. Because she is a Communist.
Add that to the fact that she has ties to an Alaskan political party that wants oil-rich Alaska with its bounteous resources (developed, thanks to Palin pal convicted felon Senator Ted Stevens, to endless tax dollars siphoned off from the lower 48) TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION. She also---in the best tradition of party officials from the original Red States---redistributed quite a big bundle of Alaska tax dollars to her own family.
You'd think that some of the commie-hating "marching morans" [cf. Sadly, No!] who attend her rallies would be questioning her all-American loyalties right about now.
Just sayin'.
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[thanks, Nicholas, for posting this for me]
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