It's a pretty sweet deal to live in Alaska. Aside from the cold and the neverending periods of darkness, of course.
There's no income tax or sales tax, and because of the oil and gas business, the state really pays for itself by taxing that.
On top of that Alaska pays you to live there; all residents receive a yearly check from the government with their share of the state's oil and gas profits, lately in the ballpark of one to two grand a year per person.
But all of that is peanuts compared with the money brought in by Alaskan Senators in Washington, D.C.
In the past 40 years, the state has had only five people fill its array of Senatorial appointments. One of them even fathered another, and handed down the job like a family business.
It is because of the skilled work they do in Washington that the Alaskan delegation has been pulling in immense federal contracts for decades.
We've found this PowerPoint by the head of the Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District that show how vast their work alone is in America's 49th state.
FACT: Col. Reinhard Koenig, the Commander of the Alaska District, was promoted to the Pentagon shortly after delivering this PowerPoint
As you can see, the Corps of Engineers is all over the state of Alaska
These are some of the largest - most expensive projects underway in Alaska right now
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