Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A relook at sales taxes
October 4, 2024
Over the years, we have been less than supportive of using a statewide sales tax to help address Alaska’s fiscal deficits. While certainly not…
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Legislature to Alaska families – The less you make, the more we take
Brad Keithley September 27, 2024
One of the things that disappoints most about the Alaska media is its ongoing failure to report on - or even reference - the...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Growth rates
Brad Keithley September 20, 2024
Occasionally, we check in on the contribution of various sectors to the overall Alaskan economy, where Alaskans are spending their money (and how much),…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What the latest state-level IRS data tells us
Brad Keithley September 13, 2024
About a year ago, we took a look on these pages at what the then-most recent state-level data from the Internal…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Some observations on campaign positions
Brad Keithley September 6, 2024
As we have read their position statements in the Alaska Beacon and on their websites and followed their social media posts, we have developed...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our monthly Permanent Fund charts
Brad Keithley August 30, 2024
As some readers may be aware, monthly as the data becomes available, we post charts on our Facebook,
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: An interim 2024 state revenue and budget update
Brad Keithley August 23, 2024
Over the past two years, we have used columns during the summer and fall to fill gaps in the Department of Revenue’s (DOR) regular...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Some follow-up on why there is not a Permanent Fund “fiscal crisis”
Brad Keithley August 16, 2024
In last week’s column, we explained why claims by some that the Permanent Fund is facing a “fiscal...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: No, there is not – repeat, not – a Permanent Fund “fiscal crisis”
Brad Keithley August 9, 2024
Sometimes we are accused of “burying the lead” to these columns by only reaching our primary point a few paragraphs down. Maybe that’s true....
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Are state policymakers really concerned about working age Alaska families? The evidence suggests not
Brad Keithley August 2, 2024
It is no secret that Alaskans face a higher cost of...