He really is a Sarah Palin protege. This anti-government lawyer who says unemployment and Social Security are unconstitutional not only took federal farm subsidies from the government that he says overspends on "entitlement" programs, but also ripped of the state of Alaska in a program it created for low-income residents.
After he first came to Alaska, purchased a home in South Anchorage and started work as an attorney for a prominent local firm, Senate candidate Joe Miller and his wife obtained resident low-income hunting and fishing licenses that require a family annual income of less than $8,200....
The cost of the low-income license was $5. Nonresidents paid $300 and residents who didn’t meet the income guidelines paid $55.
Miller came to Alaska in July 1994, while still in law school, and worked as a clerk and intern. He purchased the South Anchorage home that September (it currently has an assessed value of about $400,000).... Miller graduated from Yale in May 1995 and then started work that June for Condon Partnow & Sharrock in Anchorage, according to an application Miller later filled out for a job as an assistant borough attorney in Fairbanks. Miller listed the estimated salary as $70,000 a year.
On July 31 of that year, Miller obtained the low income hunting and fishing license that require a gross annual income family of less than $8,200 for the year preceding the application.
Even if they qualified for the low income license in 1994, while Miller was still in law school, they sure as hell didn't in 1995 when Miller had secured that $70,000 a year job and a house. That subsidy is intended for the truly indigent who are subsistence hunters--they need to hunt and fish to survive. You know, the low-income Americans Miller wants to end the welfare state for. Miller abused the system for a lousy $50, because he was a resident by then. And he abused a system that his philosophy would say shouldn't exist.
Lucky for Alaska, they've got a choice in Scott McAdams, a real Alaskan who once actually made his living, like a lot of Alaskans, as a fisherman. You can
help Scott get his message out to Alaska.
