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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sat Feb 14, 2015, 12:20 PM Feb 2015

With oil spill fund in red, Alaska legislators look to raise tax

Alaska Dispatch
Alaska News | Nathaniel Herz

With oil spill fund in red, legislators look to raise tax

Gov. Bill Walker’s administration and several Republican legislators are trying to figure out how to prop up Alaska’s oil spill response program from a shortfall due to dwindling tax receipts on North Slope oil.

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http://www.adn.com/article/20150213/oil-spill-fund-red-legislators-look-raise-tax

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With oil spill fund in red, Alaska legislators look to raise tax (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

Eqsy. Raise taxes on source of risk - the oil itself. on point Feb 2015 #1

on point

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1. Eqsy. Raise taxes on source of risk - the oil itself.

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Sat Feb 14, 2015, 12:24 PM

Feb 2015

Oil production may then diminish, but then costs would match risks.

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