to Alaskans via the oil companies.
Nearly every Alaska resident will soon be $1,884 richer, thanks to an annual payout from an oil wealth trust fund that has been credited with keeping many low-income families out of poverty, state officials said on Wednesday.
More than 640,000 Alaska residents will receive the payment from The Alaska Permanent Fund next month, which Department of Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell says is the third largest since the state began paying such sums in 1982 with a $1,000 check.
The sum is more than twice the $900 paid to each Alaska resident last year and more than the collective payments from each of the last two years. But it is still off from a high of $2,069 paid in 2008.
Alaska's Permanent Fund was established by a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 1976 requiring a portion of state oil revenues be put into a savings account to be available for the distant future, when North Slope oil fields are tapped out.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/17/us-usa-dividend-alaska-idUSKBN0HC2E320140917
Think of it. Each Alaska resident received $ $1.884 simply for living in an oil-rich state, Alaska.
And then Sarah Palin has the audacity, the nerve, to wrinkle up her nose at Bernie Sanders because he is what she calls a "Socialist."
Alaska is the Socialist state, the most Socialist state in the Union. Bar none.
Time someone mentioned that to Sarah Palin.
What a nutcase idiot. Sorry, but what else can you call a person with a with that blunt?
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