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 September 11, 2023.
This week our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why it's not just Democrats, but how Republicans also are pushing for increased spending (or reduced revenues) without addressing the issue of #WhoPays (2:10); 2) we explain why ANWR is political theater and what Alaska is receiving as part of the script (17:33); and 3) we discuss some new charts we are publishing that track the waterfall provisions in this year's budget, the earnings reserve account, and how much in state taxes Alaskans - and which Alaska families - actually are paying to balance the FY24 budget (32:26).
