The Weekly Top 3 (1.3.2022)
Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of January 3, 2022.
The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on FacebookLive and via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael each week on Tuesday’s show, from 6:20–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about the three issues.
This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we review the Governor’s proposed FY23 budget and 10-year fiscal plan released just before the holidays (2:17); 2) we discuss the Carl Marrs’ op-ed appearing in the ADN and elsewhere over the holidays, that when read in context thanks the legislature essentially for continuing to insulate those in the Top20% income bracket from the impact of government spending levels by shifting the burden instead to middle & lower income Alaska families (18:19); and 3) we discuss what we will be facing from a fiscal perspective as the COVID-related influx of federal money into Alaska recedes and things return to normal (23:54).
The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those that prefer the audio version, it is available both on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. For this and other complete podcasts of The Michael Dukes Show, go to the Show’s Soundcloud page here.