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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·1 day ago

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Who is the current Legislature’s least “regressive” member from a revenue perspective?

This week, we spent some time evaluating which revenue proposal — and thus, which legislator — is the least “regressive” from a revenue perspective; turns out the answer is effectively none of them — There have been several bills filed this session that would help close all or a portion of the state’s fiscal gap through individual taxes. …

Alaska

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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Who is the current Legislature’s least “regressive” member from…
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Who is the current Legislature’s least “regressive” member from…
Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·4 days ago

The Weekly Top 3 (9.25.2023)

What’s next for #AKfiscal after “no special session,” the Dunleavy admin drops the ball on this yr’s PFD announcement & why the APFC’s coming push for PF changes is disingenuous — Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of September 25, 2023. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on…

Alaska

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Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 22

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The September 2023 state budget update

We update projected state revenues, spending — and yes, still deep, neverending deficits 🤦 - for the most current information — Last year, we began the practice of using columns in June and September to fill in gaps we believe exist in the Department of Revenue’s (DOR) regular cycle of state revenue forecasts. As we said at the time: The Department of Revenue publishes two formal revenue updates each fiscal year…

Alaska

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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The September 2023 state budget update
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The September 2023 state budget update
Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 19

The Weekly Top 3 (9.18.2023)

The ADN ed bd’s double standard for “fairness;” Sen. Giessel’s transparent hypocrisy; and how the #AKGov & #akleg can stop oil price spikes turning into unsustainable spending spikes — Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of September 18, 2023. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on…

Alaska

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Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 16

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling 10-year average oil price

Historically, oil price spikes have led to highly problematic spending spikes; the FY24 budget uses an approach that, if continued, could bring those under control. — One of the little realized things about the FY2024 budget is that, whether intentionally or not, it is based within one dollar of the rolling 10-year historical average Alaska North Slope (ANS) oil price. While the Department of Revenue’s (DOR) FY2024 projected ANS oil price reflected in the Spring 2023…

Alaska

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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling…
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling…
Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 12

The Weekly Top 3 (9.11.2023)

It’s not just D’s, some R’s are pushing spending also w/o addressing #WhoPays; the theater around ANWR; & some new weekly charts that we think are important — Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of September 11, 2023. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on…

Alaska

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Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 9

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account

Some interesting things are going on with the ERA financial statements; we take a look under the hood — Monthly following the publication by the Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) of its Financial Statement and History and Projections, we publish four charts that follow the state’s two main investment funds: the Permanent Fund and the Alaska Retirement Fund. The first chart follows the combined amounts over time of the Permanent…

Alaska

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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account
Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 5

The Weekly Top 3 (9.4.2023)

Yes, the oil industry is important, but so are other things; what’s missing from the push for increased K-12 spending; and is Willow facing a breaking point? — Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of September 4, 2023. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on…

Alaska

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Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Sep 1

The Friday Alaska Landmine chart: The misleading narrative and its consequences

The need for additional state revenues arises from current government spending levels, not to fund the PFD; we chart a number of better ways to do that than thru PFD cuts — In a recent article carried by Alaska Public Media, reporter Robert Woolsey references Senator Bert Stedman (R — Sitka) in concluding that overdraws from the Permanent Fund earnings reserve would be for the purpose of paying a Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). …

Alaska

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The Friday Alaska Landmine chart: The misleading narrative and its consequences
The Friday Alaska Landmine chart: The misleading narrative and its consequences
Alaska

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Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

·Aug 29

The Weekly Top 3 (8.28.2023)

The push for state subsidies for childcare, the wholesale replacement of the Admin’s key players on fiscal policy & a strange defense of Rep. Will Stapp’s position on fiscal issues — Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of August 28, 2023. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on…

Alaska

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Alaska

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Brad Keithley

Brad Keithley

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Managing Director of Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets and owner, Keithley Publishing, LLC. For more, go to bgkeithley.com.

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