by Linda Gehring

Created on: September 13, 2008   Last Updated: September 28, 2010

Better question is, not just Alaska but a great many of them. The year the states lost their voices and became no more than lobbyists for "pork" and other funding was 1913, under Woodrow Wilson. The federal income tax was unlawfully instituted contrary actually to the founder's intent for direct taxation on the citizenry due to their experiences with the English sovereign collecting the revenue, and then redistributing it to it's favored sovereign subjects (no direct taxation on the "labor" of American citizens by the federal government, rather it was "foreign" labor which was intended to be taxed, and taxes placed on foreign trade agreements for their intended limited functions). That was the year also when the printing of currency without backing was instituted under the Federal Reserve Act and out currency and banks privatized without sufficient federal regulation, and the Federal Reserve really has almost no accountability as a private bank by the terms of the legislation creating it. The Chair of the Fed basically presents a report to Congress and little else. 1913 was also the year the 17th amendment occurred, providing for the direct election of senators by the people, instead of as "representatives" of the several states elected by the state legislative bodies. They thus became no more than lackeys for the federal government, with the feds using revenue as the "carrot and stick" unless the states bend to their will (even in areas for which they were never intended to have any power).

After the 1970's and the expiration of the Homestead Act, most of the unsold land in Alaska and a great many of the states were "claimed" by the federal government. It has since used these land holdings to benefit basically select developers or other corporate entities, by and large. Nevada's land also is 80% federal land. The land, if sold, was also intended to be open to public auction and bidding, with only U.S. citizens eligible to purchase the land within existing U.S. borders. Jefferson by treaty purchased Louisiana for it's ports and location.

Now, with our depressed currency, foreign governments are purchasing not only land, but interests in other critical U.S. based industries in the name of increased federal revenue and "jobs and the economy." Within recent years even the state governments have gotten into the act, and are selling parcel after parcel to foreign governments or concerns in order to increase revenue, or to private developers in bogus federal or state

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