Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska’s “Tax Expenditures”

Brad Keithley   October 13, 2023

Tax expenditures are a departure from the “normal” tax code that lowers the tax burden of select individuals or businesses through an exemption, deduction,...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Fighting with straw men

Brad Keithley   October 6, 2023

A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Who is the current Legislature’s least “regressive” member from a revenue perspective?

Brad Keithley   September 29, 2023

There have been several bills filed this session that would help close all or a portion of the state’s...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The September 2023 state budget update

Brad Keithley   September 22, 2023

Last year, we began the practice of using columns in June and September to fill in gaps we believe exist in the Department of…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling 10-year average oil price

Brad Keithley   September 15, 2023

One of the little realized things about the FY2024 budget is that, whether intentionally or not, it is...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account

Brad Keithley   September 8, 2023

Monthly following the publication by the Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) of its Financial Statement and History and Projections,…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The misleading narrative and its consequences

Brad Keithley   September 1, 2023

In a recent article carried by Alaska Public Media, reporter Robert Woolsey references Senator Bert Stedman (R - Sitka) in concluding that overdraws...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Looking at the most recent IRS data

Brad Keithley   August 25, 2023

Readers of these columns will know that we regularly analyze the distributional impact of various fiscal measures – taxes, cuts in the Permanent Fund…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s how – and how much of the – PFD cuts are ending up in the bank accounts of non-residents & oil companies

Brad Keithley   August 18, 2023

Over the course of the past few months, we have...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Is the Governor telling Wall Street something different than Alaskans?

Brad Keithley   August 11, 2023

In a recent press release, Governor Mike Dunleavy (R - Alaska) and Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum...
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