Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: “Class Warfare”
June 24, 2022
Regularly when responding to our discussion about issues related to the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), some will accuse us of engaging in “class warfare.”…
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Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: A June revenue update
Brad Keithley June 17, 2022
The Department of Revenue publishes two formal revenue updates each fiscal year. The first is the detailed Fall Revenue Sources Book, published in December...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: Putting the impact of federal income taxes on the PFD in full context
Brad Keithley June 10, 2022
During the debate this past legislative session about the size of the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), some argued the impact of federal income taxes...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: How “no taxes” has become Orwellian newspeak for shifting the tax burden to middle & lower income Alaska families
Brad Keithley June 3, 2022
Over the past several years some legislators...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: What’s a “reasonable” PFD
Brad Keithley May 27, 2022
Each week we regularly receive a number of comments in response to these columns. They come in various forms. Some are posted in the...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: It’s not the PFD that’s the issue
Brad Keithley May 20, 2022
Those reading some sources of local media - or better yet, the #akleg stream on Twitter - may think that the increase in government...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: This is what happens when you don’t have a balanced plan
Brad Keithley May 13, 2022
One of the things we have observed about politics over the past few decades is that if you don’t have an agreed plan that...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: Who should pay for the Port of A̶n̶c̶h̶o̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ Alaska
Brad Keithley May 6, 2022
In their own op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News last weekend, the newspaper’s editorial board argued that the state should provide…
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: Reviving Governor Hammond’s “Parachute Plan”
Brad Keithley April 29, 2022
Over the course of the past week we have written extensively on our Facebook and Twitter pages and spoken at length on our weekly...
Brad Keithley’s chart of the week: A relook at the Fiscal Policy Working Group proposal
Brad Keithley April 22, 2022
Last June (2021), in the midst of efforts to resolve the FY22 budget, the Legislature established a bi-partisan, bi-cameral working group for the purpose...