The Weekly Top 3 (3.21.2022)

Our take on DOR's Spring Rev F'cast, the #akleg spending push & shove begins, and we don't need a second AIDEA

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 March 21, 2022.

The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:25–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.

This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss what we find important in the Administration’s new Spring Revenue F’cast (2:00); 2) we examine the tension that’s unfolding in the legislature between increased spending on one hand and Permanent Fund Dividends on the other (15:06); and 3) we explain why we continue to be deeply concerned with the Permanent Fund Corporation’s in-state investment initiative (31:45).

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.