Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A tale of three fiscal subsections
October 27, 2023
AS 37.13.145 is one of the state’s key fiscal statutes. Titled “Disposition of income,” it sets forth the statutory principles that govern the disposition...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Permanent Fund Board’s restructuring proposal is a horrible idea
Brad Keithley October 20, 2023
Over the course of the past few months, there have been a series of articles in the press about a purported developing problem with...
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…