First, learn United States history. There was not 48 states in 1867 when William Seward purchased Alaska. Second under your theory then every state that was formed from the land purchased uner the Louisiana Purchase should pay money every year to every state that paid France for it. Third, you need to study economics, (communism has never worked), if you tax the oil companies one of two things are going to happen. Either they are going to demand a higher price to off set that tax or they cut supply to decrease their profit. Guess what is going to happen to the price of oil. You think $4.00 per gallon is high, you will see the price of gasoline goto $7.00 to $9.00 a gallon under the yours and Obama's plan. Fourth, the reason it works in Alaska is that they do not have a larger population. They are limited in what they can do in Alaska do to all the "Nature" people. In the Obama plan were is he going to come up with this extra $80+ billion. Don't say the Iraq conflict because that will have to goto his healthcare plan. You can tax someone only so much. Of course if you have no business or economic experience (like the democratic party) then you can always say you are going to fix something you have no idea about. Would you go get medical care at a auto repair shop?