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Sarah Palin’s experience surpasses Obama’s

Posted 02 Sep 2008 in 2008 election, Sarah Palin

As James Carville famously said to Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

And while leftards consume themselves with pathetic attempts to dig up decades-old dirt on McCain’s new veep candidate Sarah Palin, more details are emerging which demonstrate her experience as a smart executive.

James Pethokoukis at US News and World Report lists some of Palin’s tax cutting and balanced budget policies from when she was mayor of Wasilla:

[her team]“…invited investment and encouraged business growth by eliminating small business inventory taxes, eliminated personal property taxes, reduced real property tax mill levies every year I was in office, reduced fees, and built the infrastructure our businesses needed to grow and prosper.”

Among her tax other reductions, courtesy of the Cato Institute, were a $20 million tax credit for film production in the state, a $2 million repeal in tires taxes, a $40 million suspension of the state fuel tax, and a 50 percent cut in the annual business license fee. Plus, there was a $1,200 tax rebate that came from raising taxes on oil companies. Now that last bit sticks in the craw of conservatives. But pro-Palin forces point out that those tax hikes merely reversed some tax breaks obtained by bribery.

For more details on that tax increase, Cary Wesberry at Townhall.org has collected some of the history on Palin’s role as a corruption fighter and capable reformer while serving as Alaska’s governor:

After rampant corruption was stopped and criminal politicians, along with oil executives, fined and/or thrown in jail, Sarah Palin set out to reverse the damage done…Governor Palin did what any conservative worth their own soul would have done. She gave tax dollars that were literally stolen from Alaskan taxpayers right back to them and appropriately reversed corrupt tax policy. Not only did she bring ethics back to the tax policy in regards to the oil industry in Alaska, she improved the policy itself in her proposal.

The tax raises when oil prices are high, and falls when oil prices are low. This give amazing incentive for the oil companies to produce more oil, which increases supply, and lowers prices for everyone including the taxes they themselves pay the state.

Remember that the next time you fill up your tank. And the next time someone uses “fairness” to cloak an agenda of class warfare. We need leaders willing to stand up to backroom deals with a firm belief in economic responsibility and the people’s right to keep more of what they earn. Despite McCain’s faults, he seems to have scored big in this regard with Sarah Palin. She’s a leader with a record of real change and accomplishment, not just fancy rhetoric from a teleprompter.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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