Why do americans pay polititians so much to do so little?
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Or for people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:
The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.
In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.
Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
Hoover Institution
Kuwait:
Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz
It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.
Pollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, and many other you wouldn’t know.
Clinton “was too busy moving the country forward”
Gore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working on our energy problem”
Newt “promised his full support” To sell to Ga. Power for a .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this tech
I have letters from these crumbs saying this!
Sam was to busy with Armed Services he just brushed me off real fast!
Mason Wiggins of the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee said “ this appears to be the secret we’ve been looking for” he took it to friends in the DOE. DOE management found it had come in the back door and threw 100% clean electric power 1000 times more electric power than the largest Nuclear plant.
Alaska pays
Kuwait pays even if it’s indirect after the gulf war
Dubai pays
Oil is just 1 out thousands of commodities. With all the thousands of commodities in your state why are you not paid?
With all the resources of the feds why aren’t they paying 50 times what Alaska pays?
The democrats and republicans are in control and have all the power. They should therefore bear all the responsibility for their misdeeds!
VOTE! Vote for anyone that is not a democrat or republican!
If our forefather’s were alive today. They would lay siege to DC, tar and feather ALL the officials then hang them on the steps for all to the consequences of screwing Americans!
There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!
Because they are actually voting for or agianst their own raises.
You've never been a politician, so how do you know that their job is easy? I've never been a politician, so how do I know their job isn't easy? The point is, don't criticize too much. Many politicians are honest people who want to serve their people. It's just that the top one in the White House isn't so, the media reports on him the most.
Our governemnt is too big to run efficiently. There are too many bureaucrats, and everything they do is scrutinized to the max. It would be hard to run a business that was the size of our government. No matter how committed politicians are, nothing will be perfect.
that's is called "the politics is dirty"! depends on vote to politicans will get more money, vote is made money.. politicans style. u cant looking by eyes because u cant looking clearly tat situation.
Because if we dont pay em much we get shot, or evicted, nothing to do with subject, but if serial killers and other offenders in jail, they should be shipped to iraq, they wanna kill...let em kill iraqies...like that movie the dirty dozen, its gotta work
anyways, politicans are mainly war pigs u pay em, they make prices higher u pay higher till were all out of money and they got it all, its all a lose win game
US Government representatives are paid less per capita than any other nation in the world. As far a doing little to nothing, email your representative and ask for his/her daily schedule, it's more than you do.
Most, not all, but Most are effing criminals. They appease to interest groups, not to the will of the American people.
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