The Weekly Top 3 (2.2.2026)

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 February 2, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how the new ISER study shows, by shifting a significant part of the responsibility for revenue to non-residents, the Governor’s seasonal sale tax proposal materially reduces the burden currently being borne by Alaska families through PFD cuts (2:23), 2) we explain how, by misrepresenting and ignoring the effect of the Governor’s seasonal sales tax proposal, the editorial boards of the Anchorage Daily News and Fairbanks News Miner are intentionally obfuscating its significant benefits to Alaska families (19:08), and 3) we discuss the parts of the Governor’s proposal that are problematic, such as its failure to close the state’s full deficits and its painfully inadequate adjustments to oil taxes. (36:22). 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.