July 10, 2013
Wednesday PM

I appreciated reading Bill Walker's piece regarding the recommendation to allow the public to vote on any proposed tax giveaways to the oil companies in this state. Gov. Parnell came up with the scare tactic that the oil companies need to have reduced taxes in order to continue to have the financial resources to explore for more oil.

I also remember reading that a represenative of one of the oil companies mentioned that although a tax break would be a nice gift, decisions about whether to explore for oil is not based on tax breaks.

As Mr. Walker points out, we can choose to enable the people to be in charge of this valuable resource or give it up to the corporations and politicians who represent them.

Norm Noggle
Ketchikan, Alaska

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