YOU owe the state of Hawaii $28,500.00

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

On top of oil company taxes, Alaska also receives a substantial royalty for the oil that's produced, which Hawaii could do with geothermal generated electricity:

http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Royalty/Accounting.htm

[dayna]

The state of Alaska is currently about bankrupt. So Alaska is going to not be the state it used to be really soon. They are looking at massive layoffs and cuts of funding. Alaska is not making much money on oil these days....

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

[leilanidude]

On top of oil company taxes, Alaska also receives a substantial royalty for the oil that's produced, which Hawaii could do with geothermal generated electricity...
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Hawaii already does that to the cost of our power. WE sadly all pay that in the high cost of electricity here. If the state was truly serious about renewable forms of energy, they wouldn't charge the royalties and taxes and fees on geothermal production.

[myomy]

OT: When you say "There's a heavily republican county in southern Oregon" you must be talking about Jackson County. It also has a long sorted well documented history of very active support for the KKK.

Jackson County has dire financial issues because it, like Alaska, saw natural resources as a never ending gravy train. For Southern Oregon it was timber. For Alaska it was oil.

[imwithstoopid]

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Originally posted by terracore

We all "owe" the state $28.5k: http://www.truthinaccounting.org/library...2pager.pdf

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Ha, and you think you have it bad?
http://www.statedatalab.org/state_data_a...l/illinois

Opps, forgot, almost have to live here, plus 20 m from Chirag, 20 from Joliet Jakes second home, 20 from Aurora, Not so little Mexico City II.

And to top it off, we still owe 314,000 to the country BESIDES.

Don't be an sesquipedalian, Eschew Obfuscation.....

Sometimes, when I see the neighborhood children make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
With apologies to Dr. Seuss

[terracore]

The Illinois economy is a sh!t show. They've spent billions of dollars more each year than they bring in for so long and raised taxes so high that it caused a mass exodus such that the population of tax payers plummeted. Surprise, it only made the problem worse. Now it's the only state in history that is likely to be downgraded to junk bond status (meaning the interest on their growing debt will skyrocket when they can afford it least). Connecticut and a few other states aren't far behind. You can call it tax-and-spend or borrow-and-spend but the end game is going to be the same, eventually nobody will lend them money anymore, then all these states will look like Detroit from border to border.

"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” (Margaret Thatcher).

Illinois has run out of other people's money (they left the state) and soon not even the high-risk lenders will do business with them anymore. This is Hawaii's future if we don't stop the unfettered taxes and spending.

ETA: (they all left the state)