Sarah Palin, socialist

For all the squawking some on the right have done about Sen. Barack Obama’s supposed socialist leanings, it appears Gov. Sarah Palin is a socialist herself:

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

Sharing the wealth….that sounds an awful lot like socialism to me. I just hope those same folks who’ve attacked Sen. Obama so strongly will now attack Gov. Palin as well, in the interest of being consistent in their attacks.

H/T to illyT.