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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 January 12, 2026.

This week, we are using the segment to discuss our Top 5 fiscal priorities for this coming legislative session:

In the first part of the segment (at 2:30), we discuss our first and second priorities:

• Opposing the consolidation of the current two-account Permanent Fund system into a single account, and 
• Reforming oil taxes,

In the second part (at 18:04), we discuss our third and fourth priorities, both of which are designed to reduce the current disproportionate burden imposed by state fiscal policy on middle and lower-income Alaska families and the overall Alaska economy: 

• Restructuring and constitutionalizing the PFD, and 
• Coupled with a spending cap, adopting a broad-based tax, and

And in the final part (at 40:05), we discuss our fifth priority: 

• Reforming the Permanent Fund Corporation Board to refocus its membership on those having substantial investment expertise and experience.

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. We 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.