Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (240344)	3/20/2002 7:29:57 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 769670

The Alaskans are probably anticipating the benefits the added tax revenue will garner for them. The tax revenues are secondary to the economic activity that will result. I lived on the Bering Peninsula in the '70's, when the oil money was just starting to come in. The jobs were particularly valuable to the Eskimos. I recall going to the home of the richest man on Little Diomede. You could tell he was well off because he had a Coleman stove rather than a stone seal oil lamp. Thanks to economic activity, largely oil related, that condition is vastly improved. Life for the indigenous folks are no longer as nasty, brutish, and short.