Key Choice: Permanent Fund Dividend
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The 75% to government/25% for dividends: 42%
The law is the law--use the statutory: 19%
Permanent Fund investment returns are down;: 29%
Go with a 50/50 split of the earnings for: 10%
Revenue: Corporate Income Taxes
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Increase tax rate to get 10% more in revenue: 32%
Maintain current tax structure: 50%
Increase tax rate to get 15% more in revenue: 18%
Revenue: Mining Taxes
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Increase revenue from mining license taxes: 21%
Maintain current tax structure: 44%
Increase revenue from mining license taxes: 35%
Revenue: Commercial Fisheries Taxes
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Increase total tax revenue 50%: 14%
Maintain current tax structure: 61%
Increase fisheries business tax 25%: 25%
Revenue: Oil & Gas Taxes
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Increase revenue from oil production tax 25%: 23%
Increase revenue from oil production tax 15%: 13%
Increase revenue from oil production tax 5%: 32%
Maintain current tax structure: 32%
Revenue: Excise Taxes
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Increase revenue from sin taxes 50%: 26%
Maintain current tax structure: 44%
Increase revenue from sin taxes 25%: 30%
Revenue: Fuel Taxes
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Maintain current tax structure: 57%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 50%: 14%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 25%: 8%
Increase revenue from fuel taxes 15%: 21%
Revenue: Income Tax
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Progressive tax 20% of Federal tax liability: 12%
No revenue from an income tax: 41%
Progressive tax 10% of Federal tax liability: 22%
Flat tax 4% with no exemptions: 10%
Flat tax 2% with no exemptions: 15%
Revenue: Sales Tax
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No revenue from a sales tax: 45%
4% sales tax: 14%
2% sales tax: 19%
1% sales tax: 22%
Revenue: Lottery
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No revenue from a lottery: 43%
Allow Draw, Instant, and Video Lottery: 35%
Allow Draw and Instant games: 13%
Allow Draw games only: 9%
Spending: K-12 Education
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Reduce funding 5%: 7%
Maintain current spending: 14%
Help districts catch up; increase funding: 45%
Reduce funding 10%: 14%
Increase the BSA by 5%: 20%
Spending: Early Learning
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Cut all funding for pre-K programs: 14%
Maintain current spending: 33%
Expand voluntary pre-K programs for all: 53%
Spending: University of Alaska
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Maintain current level of state support: 27%
Given the state’s budget restraints, more: 20%
Reinstate all the cuts and provide: 21%
Continue to restore funding to the: 32%
Spending: Medicaid
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Maintain current spending: 26%
Fund services for everyone in need,: 51%
Eliminate optional services covered by: 23%
Spending: Senior & Disability Services
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Maintain current spending: 43%
Cut all non-required state funds: 15%
Increase state funding 50% to increase: 42%
Spending: Mental Health & Substance Misuse
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Maintain current spending: 23%
Cut grants 50%; communities will have to: 10%
Eliminate state grants; communities will: 12%
Problems are really bad; more services are: 55%
Spending: Children's Services
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Churches and communities need to do more to: 13%
Hiring and retaining social workers is an: 48%
Maintain current spending: 25%
Vulnerable children need to be protected,: 14%
Spending: Corrections
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Maintain current spending: 58%
Send 300 long-term prisoners Outside: 42%
Spending: Public Safety
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Boroughs with a tax base need to pay the State: 23%
Increase domestic violence grants 25%: 19%
Maintain current spending: 22%
Increase funding for troopers, safety: 35%
Spending: Criminal Prosecution & Defense
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Cut budgets by 10%: 16%
Maintain current spending; no change: 42%
Increase budgets by 15%: 42%
Spending: Court System
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Maintain current spending: 33%
Cut the budget 10% across the board, close: 20%
Increase 5% to make certain all offices can be: 47%
Spending: Fish & Game
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Reduce in-season management, close: 14%
Maintain current spending: 50%
Fund more research and management for: 35%
Spending: Transportation
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Do all it can with its current budget: 26%
Fix the roads, keep them open, and the ferries: 60%
Alaskans are going to need to get used to: 14%
Policy Option: Spending Limit
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Maintain the Legislature’s current: 26%
Let voters decide; put a Constitutional: 36%
Spend within our means (not wants): 39%
Policy Option: Permanent Fund Endowment
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Restructure the Permanent Fund to an: 39%
Keep the current two accounts in place: 61%
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