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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 06:02 PM Feb 2015

House Democrat tries to turn routine ANWR drilling resolution into oil tax "gotcha"


Alaska Dispatch
House Democrat tries to turn routine ANWR drilling resolution into oil tax "gotcha"
  
Challenging the state House leadership, Rep. Les Gara, D-Anchorage, tried to use the popular {in Alaska & f/ oil-bought conservatives} issue of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to shed light on just how little Alaska now receives from its oil-tax system.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150204/house-democrat-tries-turn-routine-anwr-drilling-resolution-oil-tax-gotcha

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State already has an oil-glut deficit problem, exacerbated by the corporate welfare commonly called 'oil tax cuts.'
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