Every day, Sarah Palin accuses Barack Obama of being a Socialist. Every day, Right Wing talk show blowhards froth at the mouth about "income redistribution." Yet in Alaska in 2008, Sarah Palin raised taxes on Oil companies to redistribute wealth. Sarah Palin a Socialist? Youbetcha!
I have a good friend who lived in Alaska for many years. He says people in Alaska like Sarah Palin. But, it's for only one reason: money.
Palin put higher taxes on the oil companies in Alaska in 2008 so she could generate revenue for the State. She then distributed this money to Alaska's citizens in the form of individual rebate checks worth $3,269.00 apiece.
($2,069.00 of this check comes from the Alaska Permanent Fund, which was established in 1976 to share oil profits from the North Slope with the citizens of Alaska. The other $1,200.00 comes from the Alaska Resource Rebate, which Palin proposed and pushed through the Legislature this year.)
Republicans like Sarah Palin hate two things with a vengance: higher taxes and what they call "income redistribution." In GOP World, putting higher taxes on rich individuals and corporations to pull money into the State - so that this money can then be redistributed to the "undeserving" Poor and Middle Classes - is the very essence of Socialist behavior.
Democrats like Barack call this Fairness and Good Government, but for the GOP, this is an Anti-Capitalist outrage, bordering on criminal behavior. Every day on the Right Wing talk shows, they froth at the mouth over exactly this issue.
Yet, look at Palin's actions as Governor of Alaska...... After all, what is putting higher taxes on Oil Companies, in order to give rebate checks to Alaska's citizens, but "Socialism" of the first magnitude?
It's the height of irony, hypocrisy, and sleaze..... here's Sarah Palin, whipping up a frenzy of hatred against Barack for wanting to raise taxes and commit the "evil" crime of redistributing wealth. Yet Palin is popular in Alaska for what? For raising taxes and redistributing wealth.
By the GOP's own definition, Sarah Palin is a Socialist.