The Weekly Top 3 (2.9.2026)
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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 9, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how the response of the House Finance Committee to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan badly fails working class Alaska families (2:08), 2) we discuss how their reaction to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan proves even “progressives” really don’t care about the economic situation faced by working class Alaska families (19:18), and 3) we explain how the new data on non-resident workers acts as a report card on how the Legislature is treating working age Alaska families, giving them a failing grade (39:39). 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.
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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 9, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how the response of the House Finance Committee to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan badly fails working class Alaska families (2:08), 2) we discuss how their reaction to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan proves even “progressives” really don’t care about the economic situation faced by work...
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- 0:10 What This Weekly Top Three Is
- 1:31 This Week’s Three Big Issues
- 2:08 House Finance Hearing Backfires
- 5:15 Building Blocks Of A Fiscal Plan
- 8:46 Nitpicking Instead Of Problem Solving
- 12:05 Sales Tax Versus PFD Cuts
- 16:59 Progressives’ Contradictions On Regressivity
- 22:41 Republicans Retreat From Saving The PFD
- 27:14 Who Should Pay: Residents Or Nonresidents
- 31:54 Likely Path: Absorb The PFD
- 37:32 Out‑Of‑State Workers As A Report Card
- 43:30 Why Workers Aren’t Moving To Alaska
- 47:05 Income Trends And The Squeeze On Families
- 50:36 We Have Solutions, Lacking Will
- 54:58 Closing And Where To Follow
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