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What West Virginia can learn from Sarah Palin
It’s time for West Virginia, and the rest of America, to take a page out of the Palin Playbook. Louise and I spent the holiday weekend near Lewisburg, West Virginia. While we were there, we saw some pretty extraordinary signs of wealth. But we also saw the extreme poverty that West Virginia is known for. That extreme poverty, and the gap between the rich and the poor in that state, is being driven by the coal industry.
West Virginia’s principal industry is the extraction of coal, and most of the profits from that coal extraction (and now gas fracking) are going out of West Virginia. And the profits that do stay within West Virginia stay in the hands of a very small number of very wealthy families. But what if West Virginians were to say to the coal industry, “If you’re going to take our fossil fuels out of our state, then you have to pay us in the form of a carbon/coal tax.”
And what if all of the money that the state raked in from the coal industry each year was cycled back to the people of West Virginia?
-Thom
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Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Case: " Sherbert v. Verner
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