Dear Editor,
The following is a list of what Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who originally opposed the bill, received for voting yes on the Reconciliation Bill. These deals are for Alaska ONLY!
1. Remove the tax and give clean energy tax credits for solar and wind energy projects.
2. The highest per capita infrastructure funding at $8,700 per person.
3. Alaska receives $300 million a year for five years for rural hospitals.
4. Increased Medicaid and food stamp benefits (SNAP) which waives all work requirements IN ALASKA ONLY.
5. Tax credits for assurances of oil drilling leases.
6. Increased deduction for Alaska whaling and fishing boat captains from $10,000 to $50,000 for their business expenses, and another $50,000 are deductible as a charitable contribution. (I had no idea whales are still being slaughtered for profit.)
7. Tax deductions and advancement of resource development of petroleum reserves.
8. Billions of dollars for Alaska ferry systems and rural sanitation.
9. Billions more for broadband expansion, roads, bridges and the electrical grid.
10. New oil lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Murkowski was hoping the House would amend the bill and send it back to the Senate to correct the unbelievable cruelty in the bill. She said, “I held my head up and made sure that the people of Alaska are not forgotten in this.” She will go down in history as saving Alaska from the bill, but letting the rest of America suffer and die by the many thousands for her political cowardice and cruelty.
Dennis C. Miller
Dennis Miller’s response to Senator Murkowski’s vote on Trump’s budget misses the point
The senator was elected to represent Alaska first and the United States second.
The problem overall is a dysfunctional congress that put our senator into the position she had to deal with.
Not all the states are in the same situation to benefit from the concessions made for Alaska, such as a ferry system to make up for our lack of roads.
Senator Murkowski should be complimented for the 10 concessions for us, not criticized.
Someone has to stand up for Alaska without efforts to hold onto rural hospitals and guaranteed 300 mill is an amazing accomplishment ? at least in my opinion she was doing what she thinks is right for ALASKA so many people forget we are apart of the United States of America and everything in Alaska cost at least 3 times more than in the lower 48. Glad 2 finally have done something FOR ALASKANS!