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Originally Posted by Khorum  The woman passed a REAL windfall tax oil company profits and then created a "Energy Debit Card" program that handed out debit cards to every Alaskan so they pay for their bills.
Aside from cutting costs and slashing the state budget of 231 million in wasteful spending, there really isn't much of a record of "tough fiscal conservatism" in her record. She's even raised the oil dividend payouts for alaskans. |
As a side note and perhaps a counter point, she has dramatically increased the operating budget for government expenditures when she was governor to the largest ever in Alaska.
Here is the first:
adn.com | opinion : No vetoes here
Where she set a 6.6 billion operating budget, though, she had only vowed 250 million in cuts in
over five years.
A little less than a year later:
Legislators lament larger operating budget: Alaska News | adn.com
11.2 Billion in operating budget, whereas their main (and pretty much only) source of money came in from Oil, to 7.8 billion of that year, in terms of revenue. Considering that oil is generally about 88-90% of Alaska's unrestricted revenue; yeah.
Fiscally conservative, indeed.
