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A baby born in Alaska in late 2016 was supposed to inherit the oil. Under the 1982 formula that child turns 18 in 2034 with a compounding dividend. Families dropped the checks straight into 529s. Instead the state handed that kid a $42,577 invoice. Walker vetoed half the 2016 check after the oil crash. Supreme Court said the PFD is not a constitutional right. POMV then routes earnings to the general fund first. The citizen check is what’s left. By 2025 that one child is already down $16,376. Project it to 2034 and the hole is $42,577. Statewide the diversion since 2016 is $25 billion. Agencies and pensions got paid. No tax ever went to a vote. Flat cut. Same dollars missing from a village family buying heating fuel and a $250k household delaying a trip. That’s a regressive tax they never named. The kid who couldn’t vote is covering the ledger. #907Honest #PFD #RegressiveTax #Wielechowski #Alaska
907Honest84,996 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce
In the 1970s, the U.S. was the world’s second-largest commercial shipbuilder. Today, it accounts for less than 0.1% of global tonnage. This collapse wasn’t an accident of globalization. It was the direct result of a single policy choice: the 1981 decision to end the Construction Differential Subsidy (CDS). Here is how a short-term budget cut reshaped global maritime power, and why it matters today: 1. The Policy Pivot (1981–1982) Under Title V of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the CDS bridged the cost gap between U.S. yards and foreign competitors, ensuring an active commercial merchant fleet capable of wartime mobilization. When the Reagan administration zeroed out funding to curb federal deficits and embrace free-market principles, foreign competitors did the opposite, doubling down on state backing and cheap export financing. 2. The Illusion of the "600-Ship Navy" The immediate fallout was masked by a surge in Cold War defense spending. While commercial order books collapsed from 69 ships in 1980 to zero by the late 1980s, yards stayed afloat on lucrative Navy contracts. When the Cold War ended and defense procurement slowed, the floor fell out. 3. The "Monopsony Trap" Without commercial volume, U.S. shipyards became entirely dependent on a single buyer: the U.S. Navy. Overhead Spike: The Navy must now absorb 100% of drydock, tooling, and yard maintenance costs. Supply Chain Atrophy: Tier-2 and Tier-3 suppliers (castings, marine turbines, specialized valves) shuttered, meaning a single component delay can stall a multi-billion-dollar warship. Loss of Scale: U.S. yards missed out on modern commercial innovations like modular block construction. 4. Generational Human Capital Loss Industrial capacity is not a switch you can flip back on. The pivot cost an estimated 70,000 skilled production jobs and halved the number of major active yards. Master welders, pipefitters, and naval architects cannot be trained overnight. The Takeaway for Industrial Strategy: Unilaterally exiting a subsidized global market does not make domestic industry more efficient, it simply cedes the playing field. In an era of renewed great-power competition, shipbuilding proves that commercial capacity and national security resilience are two sides of the same coin. Can the U.S. realistically rebuild commercial shipyard scale through modern subsidies, or has the specialized supply chain atrophied too far to catch up? #IndustrialPolicy #Maritime #NationalSecurity #SupplyChain #Manufacturing #DefenseIndustry
907Honest28,277 görüntüleme • 4 gün önce
Alaska skipped the income tax. Skipped the sales tax. Skipped the gas tax. Voters said no. The bills died. Then they took the Permanent Fund anyway. Walker vetoed half the dividend. The court called it discretionary. Senate Bill 26 put the state first. Citizens get the leftovers. $10.8 billion in missing checks. Another $14.2 billion pulled into the general fund. $25 billion redirected since 2016. No new tax law. No vote. A $2,200 cut is under one percent to a $250k oil executive. Almost 18 percent to a $50k family. Same number. Different damage. Rural villages feel it first. A kid born in 2016 loses about $42,000 by 18. The birthright started getting skimmed the day they arrived. They never asked. They just stopped sending the check. #907Honest #PFD #AlaskaBudget #RegressiveTax
907Honest18,106 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
Imagine you’re at a potluck in the bush and it’s time for the good stuff. The options are: Candied Salmon 🍣 King Crab 🦀 Moose Poo 💩 Blueberry Pie 🫐 Everyone votes. 49 people go hard for Candied Salmon (Hell yeah!) 24 lock in on King Crab (Solid!) 17 somehow pick Moose Poo… (What the actual hell?) 10 people actually want Blueberry Pie (Really?) Blueberry Pie gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. But those 10 pie fans all ranked Moose Poo as their second choice. New tally: Candied Salmon: 49 Moose Poo: 27 King Crab: 24 King Crab is eliminated next. And every single King Crab voter? They ranked Moose Poo as their next pick. Final score: Moose Poo: 51 Candied Salmon: 49 Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. The people who were craving Candied Salmon (and would rather starve than touch Moose Poo) never even got their second choice counted. The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. That’s Ranked Choice Voting. Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. It’s not “majority rule.” It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. And who shoved this mess on Alaska? Outside dark-money networks — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Moose Poo candidate to sneak through. Alaskans never asked for this. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. This November we finally get to take out the trash. Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. YES to ENDING DARK MONEY YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA YES on 2.
907Honest11,599 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
In this scenario Mary Peltola and Sen. Lisa Murkowski are Pistachio Ice Cream!!!
907Honest87,753 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
Daha fazla içerik yok.