The Weekly Top 3 (7.17.2023)
Is the PFC being Chicken Little about Permanent Fund earnings, facing the critical question of 𝙬𝙝𝙤 should pay for K-12 spending & more questions about the politicization of DOR
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 July 17, 2023.
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) why we think the Permanent Fund Corporation is being Chicken Little about the level of the earnings reserve account (2:02); 2) the elephant in the fiscal room that others are ignoring — who should pay for K-12 and other spending (21:40); and 3) some further insight into the potential politicization of the Department of Revenue tax group and why that matters very much to Alaskans (35:50).
The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. Go to the Show’s Soundcloud page here for this and other complete podcasts of The Michael Dukes Show.