Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How Larry Persily (and others) misstate the real issue
December 1, 2023
In the middle of a recent column on the Anchorage Daily News (ADN) op-ed pages ostensibly about Thanksgiving, “long-time Alaska journalist,…
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: “Free money” subsidies
Brad Keithley November 17, 2023
If there were no Permanent Fund earnings, there would be no Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). But there also would be no Permanent Fund earnings...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Alaska House Coalition is lying
Brad Keithley November 10, 2023
An op-ed published on the pages of the Anchorage Daily News last week written by Representative Alyse Galvin (I - Anchorage) and co-signed by...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Have Alaska Republicans given up on the market economy?
Brad Keithley November 3, 2023
Fundamental to the operation of any market economy is the relatively unfettered operation of supply and demand in finding an equilibrium price for the...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A tale of three fiscal subsections
Brad Keithley 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...
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…