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LOL... not as long as the black gold is flowin....ryan costa wrote:Stephen Eisel wrote:Who owns the oil??
The "alaskans" "own" the "oil". They spread the wealth around. There are high royalties and high taxes on oil in Alaska. Maybe the Oil companies in Alaska will shut down or leave because the taxes are so high there.
and a National Sales Tax (flat tax of 18%) would also help to tax those people who are involved in illegal activitiesSteve Hoffert wrote:Stephen Eisel wrote:yes!Are you a flat tax proponent for the elimination of all deductions?
That's good because I am as well. The tax system currently benefits specific wealthy individuals with certain loopholes and until they eliminate those I will be a proponent for what I previously stated.
Stephen Eisel wrote:and a National Sales Tax (flat tax of 18%) would also help to tax those people who are involved in illegal activitiesSteve Hoffert wrote:Stephen Eisel wrote:yes!Are you a flat tax proponent for the elimination of all deductions?
That's good because I am as well. The tax system currently benefits specific wealthy individuals with certain loopholes and until they eliminate those I will be a proponent for what I previously stated.
The "alaskans" "own" the "oil".
Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing the Alaskan territory without compensation in some future conflict, especially to their rivals the British, who could easily have captured the hard-to-defend region. Therefore Emperor Alexander II decided to sell the territory to the US and instructed Russian minister to the United States, Louis Baydalal, to enter into negotiations with Seward in the beginning of March 1867. The negotiations concluded after an all-night session with the signing of the treaty at 4 o'clock in the morning of March 30, 1867[1] with the purchase price set at $7,200,000 (about 1.9¢ per acre). American public opinion was generally positive, but some newspaper writers and editors had negative feelings about the purchase of land. Notably, one of those men was Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. An example of this is a quotation:
