Big PFDs aren’t a silver bullet for Alaska’s economic problems
Getting big checks is a big boost to morale, and we need that. But the downsides are easy to see.
Getting big checks is a big boost to morale, and we need that. But the downsides are easy to see.
What’s critical now is stability, and this is why the governor’s commitment to honor the three-year budget deal is important.
To hold public trust, tax systems must be transparent and simple. Ours is not.
A lot of these procedures had to be developed on the fly because this came together quickly, since COVID-19 hit in March. We’re fortunate to have made it all work.
Our grandchildren, two or three decades out, will look back at 2020 as the year the dissipation of the Alaska Permanent Fund began.
No other state has a limitation like this, as far as we can determine. This is a wound we inflicted on ourselves.
In a world of tighter budgets, institutions need to accept change as inevitable.
What we really have here is a pause. Therein lies opportunity.
In Alaska, we’re at the end of a long, thin supply line. It’s time to provide better for ourselves.
We’ll get through this. We always do.
A few boondoggles did happen, but for the most part we’ve been responsible.