Issue Position: Sustainable Budget

Issue Position

As I've told people since the beginning of this campaign, I support either higher oil taxes and/or a progressive income tax to balance the state budget and fund core public services. We should also examine creative revenue sources such as putting a price on carbon pollution and reinvesting that in deficit reduction, expansion of PFDs, and renewable energy/efficiency investments.

The choice here is simple: Either we raise sufficient new revenue to fund core services, or the PFD will be cut when we run out of state savings. It is dishonest to campaign against new revenue while claiming to support the PFD. We can't save the PFD--which has a long record of reducing inequality and reducing poverty in Alaska--without a sustainable budget that includes new revenue.

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