Enough is more than enough. This vindictive clown posing as a governor needs to go. First he bribed the electorate with a promise of more free money, then he planned to destroy the University of Alaska, along with many safety-net programs, to create a fund to further bribe his supporters with his cherished dividend. He did all this while rejecting a reasonable income tax and other sources of income, including an adjustment to oil industry taxes.
For those with short memories, as a territory and consequently a state, we lost a battle to Seattle-based fishing interests for a reasonable area-wide property tax. We have some boroughs taxing oil industry infrastructure (revenues our governor wishes to confiscate), but millions of dollars in assets are left completely untaxed. I have paid property taxes in Anchorage and Fairbanks since 1950. Recreational property in the Mat-Su Borough was highly taxed because it was lakefront. Similar property in the Lake and Peninsula Borough has no property tax, including many fishing lodges with absentee owners that are multimillion-dollar establishments. No taxes on these enterprises are levied.
Please come forward; we need a leader with a reputation and courage to lead a drive to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Impeachment probably requires a criminal act or acts, but recall simply removes him from office. Let’s get it done; every moment he stays in office is a continuing disaster for our state.
— Ernest A Hamm, Jr.
Anchorage
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