We know it’s not healthy to keep eating oversize portions, but we can’t help ourselves.
The Alaska House of Representatives chamber, photographed on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau.
Thankfully, we have the Permanent Fund, which, through its earnings, provides the largest single source of general purpose revenue for public services in the state budget. Such as the cooks in the House Finance Committee last week. The $2,272 PFD in the draft budget unveiled by the kitchen leadership was unhealthy enough — it would overspend state revenues while ignoring multiple statewide and community needs that belong in the budget.
One proposal would ask voters to put the dividend in the state constitution, which is the last place you would want a political virus. Talk about a ransomware attack.
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