Key Choice: Permanent Fund Dividend
The 75% to government/25% for dividends: 39%
The law is the law--use the statutory: 21%
Permanent Fund investment returns are down;: 29%
Go with a 50/50 split of the earnings for: 11%
Revenue: Corporate Income Taxes
Increase tax rate to get 10% more in revenue: 29%
Maintain current tax structure: 52%
Increase tax rate to get 15% more in revenue: 19%
Revenue: Mining Taxes
Increase revenue from mining license taxes: 22%
Maintain current tax structure: 44%
Increase revenue from mining license taxes: 34%
Revenue: Commercial Fisheries Taxes
Increase total tax revenue 50%: 15%
Maintain current tax structure: 63%
Increase fisheries business tax 25%: 22%
Revenue: Oil & Gas Taxes
Increase revenue from oil production tax 25%: 25%
Increase revenue from oil production tax 15%: 12%
Increase revenue from oil production tax 5%: 29%
Maintain current tax structure: 35%
Revenue: Excise Taxes
Increase revenue from sin taxes 50%: 23%
Maintain current tax structure: 48%
Increase revenue from sin taxes 25%: 28%
Revenue: Fuel Taxes
Maintain current tax structure: 58%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 50%: 14%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 25%: 7%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 15%: 20%
Revenue: Income Tax
Progressive tax 20% of Federal tax liability: 12%
No revenue from an income tax: 44%
Progressive tax 10% of Federal tax liability: 22%
Flat tax 4% with no exemptions: 8%
Flat tax 2% with no exemptions: 14%
Revenue: Sales Tax
No revenue from a sales tax: 48%
4% sales tax: 14%
2% sales tax: 17%
1% sales tax: 21%
Revenue: Lottery
No revenue from a lottery: 42%
Allow Draw, Instant, and Video Lottery: 37%
Allow Draw and Instant games: 13%
Allow Draw games only: 8%
Spending: K-12 Education
Reduce funding 5%: 8%
Maintain current spending: 15%
Help districts catch up; increase funding: 43%
Reduce funding 10%: 14%
Increase the BSA by 5%: 20%
Spending: Early Learning
Cut all funding for pre-K programs: 15%
Maintain current spending: 33%
Expand voluntary pre-K programs for all: 52%
Spending: University of Alaska
Maintain current level of state support: 27%
Given the state’s budget restraints, more: 22%
Reinstate all the cuts and provide: 21%
Continue to restore funding to the: 30%
Spending: Medicaid
Maintain current spending: 26%
Fund services for everyone in need,: 49%
Eliminate optional services covered by: 24%
Spending: Senior & Disability Services
Maintain current spending: 42%
Cut all non-required state funds: 15%
Increase state funding 50% to increase: 42%
Spending: Mental Health & Substance Misuse
Maintain current spending: 25%
Cut grants 50%; communities will have to: 9%
Eliminate state grants; communities will: 12%
Problems are really bad; more services are: 54%
Spending: Children's Services
Churches and communities need to do more to: 15%
Hiring and retaining social workers is an: 46%
Maintain current spending: 27%
Vulnerable children need to be protected,: 12%
Spending: Corrections
Maintain current spending: 54%
Send 300 long-term prisoners Outside: 46%
Spending: Public Safety
Boroughs with a tax base need to pay the State: 25%
Increase domestic violence grants 25%: 17%
Maintain current spending: 25%
Increase funding for troopers, safety: 33%
Spending: Criminal Prosecution & Defense
Cut budgets by 10%: 15%
Maintain current spending; no change: 43%
Increase budgets by 15%: 42%
Spending: Court System
Maintain current spending: 33%
Cut the budget 10% across the board, close: 21%
Increase 5% to make certain all offices can be: 46%
Spending: Fish & Game
Reduce in-season management, close: 16%
Maintain current spending: 51%
Fund more research and management for: 33%
Spending: Transportation
Do all it can with its current budget: 28%
Fix the roads, keep them open, and the ferries: 58%
Alaskans are going to need to get used to: 14%
Policy Option: Spending Limit
Maintain the Legislature’s current: 24%
Let voters decide; put a Constitutional: 38%
Spend within our means (not wants): 39%
Policy Option: Permanent Fund Endowment
Restructure the Permanent Fund to an: 43%
Keep the current two accounts in place: 57%
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