Sarah Palin is the most socialist politician in the United States.
By describing Alaska's governor in this way, I do not use the word "socialist" in any "qualified" or "diminished" sense. Rather, I describe Gov. Palin's oil tax re-distribution policy as "socialist" in the most fundamental sense of the word: "Taking money from the rich and redistributing it, equally, among everyonewho is not rich." Whether measured by "philosophical substance" or by actual "policymaking,"Gov. Palin is the nation's most determined socialist official.
During Palin's first years in office, she fought to impose large taxes on private corporations in order to secure an unprecedentedly large "cut" of corporate wealth for subsequent re-distribution toThe People of Alaska.
This "expropriated" wealth has been spread around with extraordinary largesse, enriching every Alaskan who breathes, and bestowing very large sums of money on Alaskans who have numerous children.
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. (1976) -- coupled with Palin's recent imposition of an oil windfall tax - has resulted in her and the First Dude's family, which includes five kids, receiving oil tax re-distribution checks this year totaling $19,614.00. (One wonders if all this "free money" encourages Alaskan teens to have children at the earliest opportunity.)
Against this "Alaskan backdrop," the nation - as a whole - is at a turning point; perhaps a point of no return.
Given these circumstances, it is urgent that citizens know the factual truth about Gov. Palin's vigorous expansion -- and boastful enforcement -- of socialist policy.
Instead of clarity, however, what we currently witness is a McCain-Palin ticket as deceptive about its economic practice as the Bush administration was deceptive about its calamitous "rush to war."
But there's more: Palin's pit bull adherence to socialist policy is only half the story.
Alaska also leads the nation inper capita"earmarks," having secured two-and-half times as much "pork" as runner-up Hawaii, which, in turn, is only rivaled by the Republican states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi and West Virginia.
Consider the amount of per capita pork shunted from Washington to Alaska by Palin is 22 times as much as the per capita pork brought home to Senator Obama's Illinois. In raw numbers, each Alaska resident drained The National Treasury of $555.54 this year, whereas each Illinois resident tapped The Treasury for a mere $25.47 of "bacon."
If we add Alaska'sper capita"pork" (all of it expropriated from "the lower 48 states") to Palin's re-distribution of private oil wealth, the "total take" by the Governor's own family is $23,502.78.If we add Alaska'sper capita"pork" to Sarah's sister's "oil money redistribution," "that" family "holds out its hand" and collects $38,245.40.
No other government official - anywhere in the United States! - "spreads the wealth around" like Sarah Palin.
For the sake of truth and transparency, I would like to know whether Palin recommends that the "lower 48" follow Alaska's socialist "lead" by levying a special "resource" tax on all oil companies operating within their borders.
I would also like to ask Palin if she recommends that states lacking oil reserves should follow Palin's socialist lead by taxing -- and redistributing -- the earnings ofother natural resource companies.
As I understand "the nuts and bolts" of Alaskan Socialism - whose peak re-distribution of private wealth is taking place under Palin's administration - The Painted Pit bull deliberately deludes the rest of the nation by representing herself as "a free market capitalist."
In fact, the meteoric rise of Sarah Palin's political career is directly attributable to "hitching her star" to openly socialist policies -- a flamboyant re-distribution of private wealth (and pork-barrel lard) that is completely unprecedented anywhere in the other 49 states.
A final note: If Sarah Palin is oblivious to her fierce socialist commitment, such lack of insight into her own political philosophy does not bode well for the nation. Clearly, we can not put Country First and Sarah Palin second.
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