Time to Testify
When: Monday, Aug. 2 from 6-9pm
Where: Come to the Capitol in person (Room 532) or call in. From outside Juneau call 844-586-9085. If you’d rather testify in writing, you can email the working group at [email protected]
Why: This year, the fiscal gap is about a billion dollars. Our savings are all but gone. We'll made it through with some one-time help from the feds, and some Permanent Fund earnings. Plus we’re drinking the dregs of those savings accounts. But that doesn't help us next year. Or the year after. Or the one after that.
We’ve got big choices. Are we going to make more cuts? If so, please tell us what you would do without? Will we add revenue from broad based taxes like an income tax? Oil tax reform? Other taxes or fees? A combo of some or all?
How will we set the value of the PFD and protect the future of the Permanent Fund itself? Should any of these things go into the Constitution?
There’s a lot at stake. State funding educates Alaskans from Pre-K to UA, pays for Troopers, courts, and prisons, runs the ferries, plows the roads, supports health care and so much more. So please, please come out, call in, or write us with your priorities. I look forward to hearing from you.
