This Wk's Top 3 P'cast| Senate Resources becomes performative, why Rep. Galvin's income tax is much more regressive than Gov. Dunleavy's sales tax & how those rejecting alternatives to PFD cuts are undercutting the #AKecon. #akleg
https://bgkeithley.substack.com/p/the-weekly-top-3-2232026

This Wk's Top 3 P'cast| Senate Resources becomes performative, why Rep. Galvin's income tax is much more regressive than Gov. Dunleavy's sales tax & how those rejecting alternatives to PFD cuts are undercutting the #AKecon. #akleg
https://bgkeithley.substack.com/p/the-weekly-top-3-2232026

This Wk's Top 3 P'cast| Senate Resources becomes performative, why Rep. Galvin's income tax is much more regressive than Gov. Dunleavy's sales tax & how those rejecting alternatives to PFD cuts are undercutting the #AKecon. #akleg
https://bgkeithley.substack.com/p/the-weekly-top-3-2232026

This Wk's Top 3 P'cast| Senate Resources becomes performative, why Rep. Galvin's income tax is much more regressive than Gov. Dunleavy's sales tax & how those rejecting alternatives to PFD cuts are undercutting the #AKecon. #akleg
https://bgkeithley.substack.com/p/the-weekly-top-3-2232026

One of the most important things we have learned over the past decade is the importance of examining changes in the #AKecon distributionally. Focusing on overall averages, or worse, "my" experience, misses how changes affect most #AKfams. #akleg https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/brad-keithleys-chart-of-the-week-how-the-legislature-is-deepening-the-disconnect-between-alaska-and-alaskans/

No Friday column this week. Instead, some past #akleg columns: "So, what does 'no taxes' really mean? Since 2019 it has meant one thing – use a form of taxes (PFD cuts) instead that takes more from middle and lower income #AKfams, and has a larger adverse impact on the overall #AKecon, than any other option." https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/brad-keithleys-chart-of-the-week-how-no-taxes-has-become-orwellian-newspeak-for-shifting-the-tax-burden-to-middle-lower-income-alaska-families/

The real cause of Alaska's fiscal situation is that, while the #akleg has 60 "experts" on how to spend money, it has ZERO in how to raise the money fairly and with a low impact on the #AKecon. The result is an approach that has the "largest adverse impact" on both #AKfams & #AKecon. https://buff.ly/MspJhW0

We oppose PFD cuts for one simple reason. Of all the revenue options, they have the "largest adverse impact" on the #AKecon & middle & lower-income (80%) of #AKfams. There are MUCH better, lower-impact revenue options, many of which we support. #akleg https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/brad-keithleys-chart-of-the-week-alaska-has-a-revenue-design-problem/

Alaska's "business elite" list the state of the #AKecon as their biggest concern, but then push #akleg PFD cuts, which have the "largest adverse impact" on the #AKecon (but the lowest impact on Top20% #AKfams) as their solution to #AKbudget. #MoreConcernedWithThemselvesThanEcon