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Originally Posted by Kaosu  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. |
I agree, that's a pretty legitimate attack on her since her record is clearly closer to left of center on spending. I mean, the windfall tax
ALONE is a serious objection for fiscal conservatives.
I was actually kinda pleased when I heard that she reduced funding to some heavily underutilized social services in Alaska but she actually raised funding to extraneous 'special needs' services and some kind of teen parenthood program which smacks of planned parenthood.
The cabinet-level authority to police greenhouse gases and other climate issues was workable since Nixon essentially did the same thing, but the energy debit card program and her decision to prop up the state-owned dairy business to bail out the partner farmers puts her well off track for a "fiscal conservative".
