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OK, that is about $542,000 per member. Oh, I see, the law makers themselves are not purchasing it. The statewide population is buying/paying for it. Donald is a duck, Mickey is a mouse, Pluto is a dog. What is Goofy......................our legislative folks.
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At the R-G Website it's always April 1st!
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Sorry Mr Mayor, I don't consider my current property taxes in the "free" category.
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I'd go but sheep get nervous when I'm around for some reason.
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I always wonder, how much money in today's dollars, was spent per student, educating the generations that brought us the Apollo missions, nasa, atomic bombs, the ww2 generation, the microwave oven, fuel injection systems, the microprocessor, jet aircraft, the space shuttle, air Jordan's, etc etc etc. Then I think about...
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The lease was illegal because it was not put out for competitive bidding. The purchase is illegal because it was not put out competitive bidding.
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Doesn't say anything about the cost or specific services.
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So you suggest that we, the citizens and electorate, let this group of corrupt and arrogant "public" officials just slide on this? That has happened time and again. I agree that the owner did all he was asked; however, he must have had at least an inkling at some point that there might be a problem with the "lease ren...
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Regarding the building, its more about moving on. Forgive a little, never forget and move on and don't repeat a mistake like this in the future.
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Going broke at 32 million a pop.
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Again its not so much to "let it slide" but to try to move on with the situation. If it turned out that there was a case for a criminal prosecution for any involved in the original negotiation, I'm sure the proper authorities would weigh that.
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Buy a Quonset hut for them.
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W was wondering who got the $5.00. Sort of like a poll tax for access to the candidates, I guess. Worked to keep those people in the South from voting; limits those who can actually hear the candidates at the same time in Eugene as well.
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Good well balanced article!
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The road goes on forever and the party never ends. These arrogant people are so out of touch with the citizenry. If this purchase sticks, Alaskans must demand that all meetings of the Legislature take place in Anchorage, where we the people can attend and protest. This hiding in Juneau and meeting in secret must end....
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The no tax folks simply confound me. How in the heck do you think roads, schools, public safety, emergency services, and all the other amenities you enjoy (and seem to take for granted) are paid for? There really is no such thing as a free lunch. Further, what do you think the role of government is? I hope all the no...
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It is not reasonable at all. If the state pays ANYthing for this building it is wasting money on something it does not need. It is duplicate space, and will be an added expense when the state is supposedly working to minimize expenses. Leasing the Atwood Building would equate to the state paying rent to itself - net z...
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You are dead wrong my friend. Two wrongs don't make a right. It was illegal from the beginning per Judge McKay, and this legislative majority is obviously nothing more than an extension of the CBC of old. Emphasis on the "C" in CBC.
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While the majority of the comments here are unsurprisingly negative, I am pleased that the Legislative Council has realized that 'popular' isn't always right. Buying another building and taking it off the tax roles is never a good option, but rather than appealing the court's decision or worse yet, reneging on their co...
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Thank you. Kevin Meyer and Charisse Millet are two legislators who were elected to represent the people in my district, although their actions indicate that they are abdicating this duty. I will be leaving messages on both of their answering machines that they will not be able to replay publicly.
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Could we just buy this nice building and move on with our lives and whatever else is bothering everyone
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Who is your senator and how is anything about this "right"? The lease was illegal. Walk away from it. They're offering to buy this as a favor to Pfeffer. He probably knows where more than a few bodies are buried....
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probably less sealife would be killed then if the ship was not having engine problems and its giant bronze propeller kept chopping up the water and everything else in its path
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What is messed up is this is quite likely a gang initiation, and you'll hear more about/from this sick perp in the future.
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I will cheerfully be voting against my Senator for standing up and doing the wrong thing, repeatedly. If the legislature was taxing the oil companies instead of giving away our oil I might see the building as not so important. As it is any expense will come from Alaskan's pockets or the PFD.
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I'm attempting to understand this--our budget is in "free-fall" but we are buying our legislators luxury while making every effort to sell the Pioneer Homes. Seems like the state has money when it benefits them.
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There was no "independent analysis". It was rigged report to make the LIO look good. The analysis was cost per square foot vs rent per square foot. That's apples and oranges. That's deceptive. With rent, like with the Atwood, you get utilities, insurance, security, maintenance, taxes in the rental price. But if y...
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Without an income tax there hasn't been real skin in the game. Without that income tax, Anchorage overall is the second lowest taxed city in the nation behind Cheyenne. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/02/25/american-cities-with-the-highest-and-lowest-taxes/3/
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"Line in the sand"; you betcha! Gary Stevens will budge on the price exactly when he is told to budge and how far to budge. Since we own this new LIO, every legislator within 50 miles can now report there to work and to meet constituents. I certainly don't want to see duplicate Legislative Office Space being leased ...
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Sure. Do you have $32.5M?
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So I guess this means the Aces organization is content with not making the playoffs next year or the foreseeable future. Good to know, but I sort of figured that out already.
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An accountant would look at all the budgets within the municipality. Including the SAP software upgrade. $14 mill was saved with the price of fuel going down for city operations and the lack of snow removal need. You can insult me all you want, but with the SAP software nightmare, you certainly can't somehow tie $14...
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Well....look - as much as it would be popular to agree with you, I don't think they are all corrupt. Most are good people. I feel a little sorry for Senator Stevens because he is one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet - an old college professor. Surely he has served his constituency well on Kodiak Island and o...
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Look at the size of their driveway. Also, have you been up there? It is highly unlikely anybody other than the victim got a good look at a vehicle.
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I'm proud to call Peter Micciche my Senator. How is it right? 1. the legislature (customer) approved the plan including the costs; 2. the landlord (seller) performed exactly as agreed. I'll concede your point that a judge found the lease illegal (a point I'm only disappointed won't be appealed) however, even that didn'...
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Unless the homeowner was expecting to get shot upon opening their door, it is unlikely that even a gun even within a close proximity would have done any good. Seems folks need to start answering doors with a 12 gauge...
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I guess I would have to ask why? After a 23 year career at sea, I sea no point in this. It would obviously be used for near coastal casualties, where the vessel would be vulnerable to allision, collision, and grounding. Have there been a rash of groundings recently?
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Mike, you might be surprised to learn that the education system wasn't so great in the 1930's when those Apollo kids were in school. Enrollment and graduation have risen dramatically while racial disparity has narrowed: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93442.pdf
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Tim, you have no understanding of how the PERS/TRS fiasco was created- not by local government, but by the mismanagement of the legislature and various Governors. The system is massively underfunded and will go bankrupt in about ten, maybe 15 years, due to gross incompetence of the legislature. (Giving away our oil, ...
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I'd start by killing the LIO, Susitna Dam, Ambler Road, Knik Bridge, Juneau Rd. and the oil tax credits. Pain should be felt by all including the royalty occupying the LIO and oilies.
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Your spin is utter horse manure, Kyle. Adding millions to the cost of local government (for a problem they did not create) is an unfunded mandate.
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bycatch: Sometimes I have to close out ADN, and reload.
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So, they'll be spending about $35 million for oil-executive type offices for themselves? But to be budget-wise they have to cut out the entire $11 million budget for EARNED scholarships for All Alaska kids? And to wise budget stewards they simply must wipe out the giant $700,000 budget needed for internet access for...
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"Artisan macaroni and cheese"
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That's insane, and I'm pretty sure you know it.
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Oh, I agree. I don't think we are being told the whole story.
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So an illegal lease that was negotiated primarily by Hawker and Pfeffer - Hawker who was playing with money that was not his, and Pfeffer who was more than willing to dip his hands into the bucket of state money and pull out as much as he could grab - negotiations in which the "customer" and the "seller" colluded repea...
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Not because of who was mayor, but because Sully created the conditions where the odds of getting caught and prosecuted were greatly reduced. As dumb as some crooks may be, most can do a basic cost/benefit analysis. And most of those "punk" criminals would probably love for you to call them punks to their faces ... ju...
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Who was harmed and how bad was the harm? Tell me did a fish or anything die and was it justified for the this man a year in jail at $ 30,000 per year at tax payer's expense? This seems Judge seems very harsh to me, but who knows, the reporter gave no facts as to the harm that was done if any. Show us a picture of t...
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I agree that they are not all corrupt, but the problem now is that the worst of the worst are in control. I don't know Stevens personally but no one forced him to be where he is. I wish I shared your confidence that anything criminal will dealt with appropriately, however, this legislative majority has consistently snu...
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I was privileged to have known him, and will remember him fondly.
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Please see; Leaven No Trace on Facebook
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Hmmm. Let's see who is lined up on this one: Patrick Flynn and public sector union bosses are opposed to Prop 8. Paul Jenkins, Rick Mystrom, Dan Sullivan, George Weurch, and Tom Fink are all Voting YES on Proposition 8. Any doubts, which one of these groups is more interested in keeping our taxes lower and which...
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Last session they were more than happy to walk away from state employee contracts. I don't think they are bothered by such things.
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Union boss Joelle Hall is opposed to Prop 8? (Joelle Hall is the Alaska AFL-CIO's Director of Operations) That's pretty good evidence that YES on 8 is good for taxpayers YES on 8!!
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Here's an idea, the state capital is in Juneau (at least the last time I looked). If you need a special session, have it there.
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W.o.w. Do these guys know what a shady deal is and how not to be party to it? I guess not.....
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They already closed the bars on the ferries.
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AGREE with you FRANK---the state HAS NO business in any commercial operations--The Fish processing plant was another---BOONdiggle---SELL to the highest bidder--everytime the state govt sticks their hand in the business---==FAILS--big time
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Alascat: I suspect that they have already lined up their alts ... like a "tag-team" match. Almost any "R" will simply be the CBC, with different monikers.
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The AFL-CIO has contributed 2/3's of the money used in the current radio ad campaign against Prop 8. https://aws.state.ak.us/ApocReports/CampaignDisclosure/View.aspx?ID=14945 That's a very good reason to assume YES on Prop 8 is a good deal for taxpayers. YES on 8!
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You have not read the facts about what Planned Parenthood teaches in public schools. Reproductive health that does not include abortion topics at all. Your comment is not fact and an unfair attack.
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You got to be kidding me. They never intended to do anything but get this place come hell or high water. Bunch of self serving bastards. It's a Saturday Night Live sketch that writes itself and never ends. When these guys die we won't have to bury them, just screw em into the ground they are so crooked.
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These legislators claim to be anti-tax, but they're still raising taxes if they shift the financial responsibility from the state to local communities and local communities then have to raise taxes to fund the programs.
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Patrick Flynn is worried about tax relief? Since when? The majority of the financing for the opposition to Prop 8 is financed by public sector unions through the AFL-CIO https://aws.state.ak.us/ApocReports/CampaignDisclosure/View.aspx?ID=14945 Anyone think union boss Joelie Hall at the AFL-CIO is worried about tax...
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I find the comments interesting. Obomba makes some snarky comments, without calling anyone names, questioning their ability to think or making derogatory comments about their belief system. Yet the one who does all of the above states that he is being civil. Interesting.
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I thought that the legislators knew that we were in a fiscal crisis and cannot afford such frivolous spending. Wake up already!
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April fool joke, right. ADN you got me on this one. Well done. Well done.
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The current effort to shift financial responsibilities to local governments is a continuing process of enacting unfunded mandates, not fully funding education, and passing the savings on to the oil and gas industry.
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If I'm not mistaken didn't the change to the cap allow Berkowitz to collect an additional 1.6 million in property taxes? It would seem to me that if economic activity declines, property values decline, population becomes stagnant and declines in student enrollment occur then property taxes should go down; just like the...
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Living in a bush community in Alaska way out at Dutch Harbor, AK, people in remote areas need t o be able to communicate. Whether for on line services, social service interactions for their child and themselves, how to help heat their homes, etc. This is not only extra services, it is a manner to know how to survive w...
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Great work Devin! YES on 8! The chart Devin Kelly included in this pretty much tells the whole story. Under the YES on 8 tax cap method, (endorsed by Mayor Sullivan), property taxes would certainly be lower than the new method endorsed by Mayor Berkowitz. If taxpayers needed any more evidence: The AFL-CIO is financ...
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You were an hour early for April Fools...
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I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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Are guns allowed in the Capital building in Juneau or the State Legislature building in Anchorage?
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I live out in a remote area of the Aleutians and no one has ever paid for my internet service nor have any government subsidies. If you had that in the past , you are lucky. A single mother for six years with food stamps to help me through and working two jobs, be thankful for what you have, what I have found the mos...
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Both sides helped run this ship aground.
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That's the difference between your comments and mine. I don't find yours interesting at all. And I invite you to reread my previous post and then tell us what 'name' I called Obomba. And while I disdain such popular adjectives as 'snarky', you apparently misunderstood the nature of my (ahem) 'snark'. I wasn't derog...
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Richard Corbell, I guess you have never been poor nor had financial tragedies in your life while also working full time? Maybe instead of "supress information" as you insinuated above, it should be marked as entitled: "not allowed information anymore". I would like you to give me a detailed account on how you person...
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You do not need a great business model, when you can rely on the corrupt federal government to steal, at gun point, from it's people to help subsidize your barbaric business.
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Olrun Horde-- Just because "evil" oil companies have picked up the tab for state spending levels that would otherwise require the highest state income taxes AND highest state sales taxes in the US, doesn't mean we need to increase our property taxes, that are already among the highest in the US. According to the la...
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Hi Marsha, I know what you are striving for. I have two eighteen year olds this year, others doing mentorship programs in the past, that come to my home every day while I am at work to take classes on line to get their High School Diploma. Their families can not afford internet or it is so slow it takes them five tim...
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David James responds to your false opinion rather nicely and much better than I could. Please see Davids comment below.
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Wavemaker -- You do understand that any local sales tax would also be part of revenues under the Tax Cap.
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I guess my most recent comment is, since WHEN, is our Alaska state government "grooming" our comments and when we make one, we have to rationalize our comments????? Utterly absurd. Close to a socialistic if not communistic mentality. Hope if you track this one and ask others to evaluate it, they will just laugh whol...
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I mean really, the press used to be "free press" but now run via a lot hip hop. I think the best thing, if they ask you to "earmark" your answer from other comments here , is just to say 'yes' to almost everything to allow free press. Upset our about our current press.
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I did not say you called Obomba names but does "wealthy proto-fascist business elites" sound familiar? I said nothing about religious beliefs, I said belief systems, does your statement "apparently because your religion mandates that you worship them" sound familiar? Would disparaging how someone thinks or believes be ...
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Learning: not testing! I'm a big believer in education, however this has been one long sustained waste of not only the people's money but of the student's valuable time as well. Junk the concept, the test, the waste: end this nonsense now!
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PLEASE Governor Walker, use your line item veto to kill this appropriation! I trust that a small group of legislators doesn't have the authority to spend this much public money with no checks and balances...do they?
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Use chopped dates instead of raisins in oatmeal cookies. Also in cinnamon rolls. Or any baked items where you usually use raisins.
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What positions does Donald hold these executive women in? Missionary? Appearing on “CNN’s New Day” with Chris Cuomo, Michael Cohen, Trump’s general counsel and an executive vice president at Trump Organization, said that while the billionaire’s companies employ 57 percent men and 43 percent women, “there are more femal...
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This sets the tone for considerations made by those, who in the future, are faced with making choices. For far too long people have recklessly damaged habitat, sacrificing it for profit.
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Pete and Anna, you are passing the buck.
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Hey sorry, Richard Corbeil, you are wrong. Without the public libraries in the state of Alaska, we have nothing. How do expect others to get jobs, tuition, etc, without the internet. I have been told by the Librarian out at Unalalska that also the free internet there for the poor and desperate out at Unalaska shall a...
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You sir, are are a very small minded person that has probably never had to live out in the bush and if so, due to economic resources. Your voice, as you can witness from comments from others, is a very small voice.
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I did not realize that buying votes with money stolen from the people could keep you in such good shape ?
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1. Make a relatively harmless product illegal to produce. 2. Create an atmosphere where people make their own, under less than safe circumstances. 3. Watch houses blow up. Makes perfect sense. Let's go back to bathtub gin while we're at it. We need these bureaucrats' names, and the names of who appointed them.
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Wolves in the wild typically only live between 6 and 8 years. If these wolves are 10, then they are really decrepit old senior citizens at this point. And once they get habituated to killing livestock, they will not stop. They will just keep coming back time and time again, just as these wolves did. Think of this as b...
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This comment, coming from someone who is all in to build a $6 billion plus dam on the Susitna (see yesterday’s opinion piece comments). Might want to check your compass again, so what gives AR, I thought Coghill was your man. At one point he loved the dam idea even more than you. He must have changed his position.
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Since the State already owns the Atwood, who is the rent being paid to? The State. It's just an accounting shell game to cover up that the fix was in.
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