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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by RockIslandLine on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:42PM (#23267863)
"And how do you get Alaskans on board for paying higher taxes to fund it?"

The APF is funded by severance taxes on oil & mining. I suspect that most people are entirely fine with that tax model.

The problem is that it only supports a small benefit.

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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by luckylion on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:00AM (#23269373)
Yeah, and to increase it 5 or 10 times would certainly require new taxes. I don't know whether oil and mining will still be profitable with a ten-fold increase in royalties, taxes and fees, but I have a feeling that it won't.
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