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Alaskans, JKT wants to tax you! Tom Begich does not. #akelect

When the Alaska Neighbors surveyed them last month, Tom wrote “Corporations pay their share first. A broad-based tax on Alaskans income is a last resort, not a first move” while JKT wrote “will likely be necessary to pass broad-based revenues for AK to have sustainably balanced budget”

Good. We need an income tax. Important to note, an income tax is also a corporate tax because it closes the S-Corp loophole. Also, Tom supports the same thing. Here's the sponsor statement from the bill he introduced in the legislature. www.akleg.gov/basis/get_do...

No, we shouldn’t automatically assume we need to tax everyone without a clue as to what the state finances would be after all the tax loopholes are closed. The two candidates have wildly different numbers and JKT’s number is way too low and doesn’t even match akleg estimates for annual amounts.

Is there something wrong with paying taxes?

Yes, especially if your income is so low you can’t afford health insurance, food, and rent. Yes, when wealthy corporations are leeching off of Alaskas resources and don’t pay their fair share. Yes when Alaska has. some of the most per capita millionaires in the USA, they need to be taxed.