At the end of a Senate majority press conference today, Sen. Cathy Giessel of south Anchorage answered a reporter’s question about her call for a new tax.
Must Read Alaska was the first to report that Giessel had stated in her constituent newsletter that an income tax on Alaskans is unavoidable.
“I’ve lived here since before statehood,” Giessel said on Tuesday. “We’ve lived since 1982 with a cash handout from the state of Alaska. And I think it’s pretty obvious that the time for that is ending.”
Then she blamed President Donald Trump.
“President Trump wants to lower the cost of fuel, lower the cost of oil. That’s what we’ve been depending on. But now, nearly 50% of our income is coming from the federal government. Somehow we’re going to have to make some corrections here,” she said.
“So what I’m basically hoping to prepare people for is the fact that the gravy train is over,” she continued. “And we’re going to have to make some serious decisions. We’ve got some revenue suggestions on the table. We’re going to get a huge amount of pushback on that. I know who will say ‘wait, you’re going to reduce the production of oil, you’re going to cost these companies more.’ These are very big national or international companies. We’re a small state. No other regime has given away cash credits before as we did in Cook Inlet, right? And to some degree that we still do on the North Slope. So I think citizens need to have a very serious look at this concept of receiving a dividend every year.”
She said she gets a lot of emails from people that say they want the Legislature to increasing funding for education with half of their Permanent Fund dividends.
“That’s what that dividend money should be used for,” she said. “We all benefit from a solid education so that people don’t end up in corrections, needing more police officers, or committing suicide.”
The little guy, Alaskans, are being asked to pay an income tax and possibly a sales tax to subsidize Big Oil. We’ve already given up over $10 billion in lower dividends thanks to SB-21.
When Big Oil got caught bribing our legislators it resorted to simply ensuring key legislators were their own employees. People like Kevin Meyer, Micciche, etc, or “former” employees, like Sean Parnell.
Legislators that don’t hate Alaskans would, before trying to impose income taxes, end corporate welfare and get Alaskans a fair return on our oil.
No.
We are being asked to subsidize big government.
We are being asked to subsidize government workers.
We are being asked to subsidize government workers lavish retirement accounts.
We are being asked to subsidize government that more than tripled spending in 6-7 years during record oil prices and has failed to respond to reality for over a decade, spending our savings, confiscating the dividend that our common resource provided.
We are being asked to subsidize wasteful spending.
Steve, yes, wasteful spending should be cut. Too bad you don’t support ending wasteful spending- like the $1.4 billion dollars in corporate welfare we give away to Big Oil every year.
M,
Gaslighting is no longer an acceptable way to push the leftist narrative.
There is nothing in anything that I have ever said here, or anywhere, that would lead any rational person to believe that I don’t support ending wasteful spending. What you are talking about is raising taxes and decreasing production. I understand why you feel that you cannot honestly communicate your beliefs since the opinions you parrot aren’t just unpopular, they are completely wrong.
To subsidize big oil? Have you researched how much big oil takes from Alaska? Or how much they put into Alaska? Have you given any consideration where the PFD comes from? Or why we don’t have to pay an income tax?
Have you ever considered thinking for yourself instead of mindlessly repeating democrat talking points?
Woman looks like she nuts in the photo . Spewing out garbage comments that most everyone in commentary reject. Must be a product of the Ak GOP ? Then to top it off she has Trump derangement syndrome . Where do they find these wackos !
Translation: you put me back in office, suckers.
Now choke on it.
Geissel looks like an old witch. How did it get that bad for her?
Howdy Jose. Maybe she is hanging out with Lisa Murkowski
With those stupidly hideous and oversized glasses, I see that Cathy has completed her transformation to full-bore radical leftist.
What IS it about the ridiculously ugly and giant glasses that so enamors all the female radical leftists?
Terminally constipated
Yep!!! I warned everyone
Cathy is a born tyrant and a coercive little old woman. Ask her family. They’ll tell you.
A very messed up mind. She wants state income taxes and no PFD. In other words, she wants people to become enslaved to her despotic standards. If she thinks she is politically viable outside of her own district, she has mental health problems. Anyone who knows the real Cathy Giessel will agree.
Giessel is full of it. She’s been trying to steal our money for years. She’s ignoring critical variables in order to spew her narrative, too.
The face only a mother could love.
I think she already passed away. No more love.
Agreed. I’ve called her a thief to her face… and now I add the title, LIAR. I hope she kept all those robo-emails from the NEA – I’d like to research that “source”, if they exist. As for her narrative, I’d have to be generous to say she’s delusional – it appears to be deliberate fabrication.
The gravy train isn’t over, it’s just got started. When the traitorous lying rino’s joined with the corrupt union democrat their goal was a spending spree so they wouldn’t have to do the hard work. Just watch.
Would someone just show that b*tch the f-ing door, PLEASE?
There is no sense in listening to that self-serving, RINO, back-stabbing, POS legislator that hopefully gets voted out of office quicker that diddily-squat!
Preach!
Problem is that Alaska ranks in the bottom 50 in education. All the money in the world isn’t going to fix the problem. The programs that the school districts use aren’t working. Get back to the basics. Reading, writing and math. DEI and CRT aren’t working.
Yes!
Amen!
“The gravy train” began with the communist takeover of the Alaska legislature and they’ve been choking on it since Bill “the tool” walker. She’s been here since 1982. Carpetbagger; I’ve been here since 1965 so how ’bout that? “Education funding” is a metaphor for ‘blank checkbook”. Stop pouring money down the toilet of public indoctrination and give it to parents to send kids to real schools.
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Perhaps you should read the story before commenting- she said she has been here since prior to statehood.
Geissel: “Increase funding for education or people will: commit crimes, go to prison, die.” Sheesh, maybe we should just give up. When we’re stuck with half-witted legislators like Giessel we must suppose that the end of the world is already nigh.
No. We toss money at education and we have one of, if not the worst student success rate in the country so again, No. Also as long as municipalities and boroughs extort money through property taxes keep your grubby fingers off my PFD. Many of you here before statehood seem to forget the dismal failures of government here in Alaska. I have enjoyed my life here since 1962, dont f it up Kathy.
Oh sure she can say that , she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Giessel is as bad as Pocahontas, and AOC now!
I must have missed the part where she talked about accountability on behalf of all those whom require funding, prior to us obligating ourselves in that fashion.
Suzanne could you please put that up next time?
Senator Giessel stated that her constituents prefer increased eduction funding over a pfd. She also stated to meet future Constitutional expenses new revenue will be needed. Alaska had an income tax before oil money and that Federal $$$ will be decreasing is stating the obvious. Mixing opinions in headlines with a factual story is a MRAK standard
No new revenue would be needed if the sociopaths in power, like Cathy Giessel, would debloat the woefully bloated state government.
Alaskans, particularly Alaskan politicians, live in an economic fantasy world divorced from all reality when it comes to governmental spending. I was observing and saying that when I moved to Alaska almost 30 years ago, and it is as true today as it was then.
Politicians like to highlight those who agree with them and completely disregard those who don’t. She said she gets a lot of emails that say they want more government spending, she didn’t say if she gets more who oppose it but why would she if it doesn’t support what she wants? If state spending goes up on non constitutionally mandated items, then in order to pay for the spending that is outside the constitution the money has to come from somewhere. Her hands aren’t tied, the legislatures hands aren’t tied, these are decisions that these people ran an election to make and when they pretend they don’t have a decision to make it’s self-serving and shows they have absolutely no business being in the position they are in, they are out of their depth.
No, she did not.
Words matter. She used vague references, not specific information. “A lot of my constituents…” is very different than “More than 75% of my constituents…” (And, no she did not specifically say anything like that, it is an example.) Politicians pull that garbage all the time. Say “a lot” but never define what a “lot” is.
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And if MRAK is so awful, why do you keep coming back here?
“Senator Giessel stated that her constituents prefer increased eduction funding over a pfd. She also stated to meet future Constitutional expenses new revenue will be needed. ”
Frank, Cathy Giessel can claim anything she wants, but we all know that she shades the truth considerably. Most likely she got a bunch of generated emails from the teachers union.
She is correct we will need more revenue, what she however conveniently leaves out is we have abundant natural resources, we could access and greatly increase our revenue. She and her ilk are the ones standing in the way and holding us back…..
Sounds like she’s gone off the deep end..The PFD(25%) was never meant to be used for schools. That belonged to the other 75% that was given into the budget. I’M getting sick and tired of people thinking that “OUR” PFD is their piggy bank..They want more and more and more…there is never going to be end once it’s starts. They need to re-define their budget so they don’t have borrow from others.
When you peel away the rhetoric it appears that taxes prevent suicide. In addition to being a disagreeable old hack she’s also an altruistic therapist.
A nickel says that she’ll somehow twist a State income tax into a bigger retirement income for her husband and herself.
If taxes can stop climate change, taxes can stop suicide as well.
I’ve had it with these useless Democraps taking what ever they want They might want to stop lying and rethink what they are doing
Fixing education in Alaska, the answer is not to threw a huge sum of money at the problem. The education needs reform and higher standards for the students. There will be no income tax, else the politicians supporting that will be ousted and replaced with Generation Y. Old ways and old thought is out.
“President Trump wants to lower the cost of fuel, lower the cost of oil. That’s what we’ve been depending on. But now, nearly 50% of our income is coming from the federal government. Somehow we’re going to have to make some corrections here,” she said.
The corrections needed are that YOU don’t waste money you don’t have on special projects! YOUR spending has increased and exceeded the desires over Alaskans. YOU are happy to spend other people’s money as long as it doesn’t come out of your bank. YOU expect US to pay for your poor choices!
Giessel is committing suicide on Alaskans and the reasons are so she can have a tax without effecting her wild projects.
Before we get a tax, we need to end additional roads that we can’t maintain, reduce contractors over state employees, stop paying lobbyist projects, build the gas pipeline and hold accountability for education, not more money.
Hmm…. repubs doing repub things.
Why am I not surprised?
When will the repubs unveil their tax plan too?
Chris,
No. Democrats pretending to be Republicans, doing Democrat things.
Wrong!!! That thing is a Rino A Murkowski wannabe
Cathy Giessel needs to go jump in a lake! Yeah, the money pit that doesn’t allow Alaskans to develop our vast natural resources that would most likely make our state debt free. Instead, she wants to fund a failing educational system with funds set aside for the human being residents. No Cathy, you are failing as co-chair of Natural Resources! You seem immune to what is happening in our nations capitol. Put on your big boy pants, cut monies from the budget. As a member of the finance committee put on your DOGE hat and become ruthless for smaller Alaskan state budget using what we have.
She is so stupid that she actually admitted “No other regime has given away cash credits before as we did….” The people insist that Alaska stops giving away our oil. That’s the only new source of revenue we need. Nowhere else in the world do the owners of oil give it away like Alaska’s politicians do. The gravy train is not over for the oil companies and the politicians.There, fixed it for you.
What is wrong with this woman? She claims that people are going to commit suicide if they don’t institute some kind of tax?? And I would like to know how she would improve the school system to be a solid education system. I think there needs to be some kind of research done on how it can be improved before throwing more money at it.
Why oh why did we leave the door open for her?
No matter how much money government spends on education it is never enough. The education establishment has an insatiable appetite for other people’s money. If you need evidence of that witness the budget gimmickry of the Anchorage school board. Giessel is now riding that education funding wave in the hopes of attracting votes in her upcoming bid for governor. Giessel has no core beliefs other than doing what she sees as necessary to promote Giessel. She is a political chameleon changing her colors for the audience at hand.
I lived here before statehood too, honey, and you are wrong. Please get the mental health care that you need.
JMARK, I too am Older than Alaska, and I concur with your diagnosis of the Nurse, err, Senators condition.
Start by taxing the native casinos.
When I read the words,”Blame Trump” I knew then that is a “Straw man fallacy” Nothing before or after is under consideration with regards to her comments.
On the other hand, one would suppose that an anticipated expansion of exploration with development in an atmosphere of knowing the development is encouraged by Trump would bring added wealth to the State coffers. I’ll go for the “Full Glass”, thank you.
Cheers, Johnson-Ketchikan
Inevitably, without question, these politicians will most assuredly institute a state income tax, confiscate the annual PDF check, implement a value added tax applied to all of Alaska toys, continue to increase the state payroll, and increase costs to private industry thru greater regulations … unless of course(!), we start pushing back, holding them personally accountable with severe consequences for being recklessly malicious and void of true representation.
Geissel claims she gets a lot of emails from Alaskans wanting half their permanent fund dividend to be thrown into the unaccountable waste hole of “education.” What’s stopping them? They can donate their half back to to the AK treasury any time they want. But of course we can pretty much figure the emails she speaks of are 1)not real or 2) from teachers/ school administrators and the teacher’s union.
‘Giessel the weasel’ is a phrase I have heard more than a few times and sure seems to fit. Yes faux republican Senator Giessel – the gravy train is indeed over – for our bloated governement – state included. Taxing citizens when no state fat trimming has occurred, eliminating the pfd, certainly will not alleviate suicide and in fact likely will increase suicide as financial struggle can add to the depression that can lead to suicide.
The state has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. If they can pay a dividend they dont need an income tax. If they can drum up a pension plan they dont need an income tax.
Caution: Politician in late stage soul destruction after pledging themselves to Old Nick.
Why must we citizens be made to suffer, but government doesn’t? We’re supposed to make do with less money, but God forbid the government does?
Whose other elected voices are part of our Alaskan
Representative team besides Ms Giessel, as we the people are inherently crucial in any change, individual opinion, or deviation in this important arena?
I don’t see many comments on this forum that supports giving more money to the school districts. So it must be people working for the school district in some manners. And we do not benefit from the school district that is not educating our kids and just taking more and more money. There must be some accountability. They have had no accountability for way too many years and we have just given them more and more money.
Total LOSER mentality.
Our children aren’t recording so e of the lowest literacy rates in reading and math because of a lack of funding.
Quite the contrary.
The school districts and liberal politicians are FAILING our students because of a lack of discipline in the schools and the lack of focus on the three R’s.
They are more focused on DEI – children’s feelings, sexuality/LGBTQ+ B.S., creating a false narrative of racism, making children feel they don’t control their destiny – and a false narrative that the world is doomed because of global warming.
Despicable and EVIL.
Shame on you people.
What about looking at the development path instead of spending up the whole piggy bank first. If the Permanent Fund is to be spent up it might better be spent on the development of resources that the State of Alaska has to capitalize on. We can likely depend on the development of our resources to be met with a favorable response from the current WH which hopefully wouldn’t obstruct much. Spending up the Permanent Fund on Education has already shown to be endless whole with lousy results.
Horse thievery.
I too have lived here since before statehood. The public school system is a spectacular failure which has not been improved by more funding. Sen. Giessel claims she needs to raise our taxes and take the PFD for “education so that people don’t end up in corrections, needing more police officers, or committing suicide” but neglects to mention that funding for government schools has caused or contributed to these outcomes.
Giessel, along with the rest of those mental midgets in Juneau have absolutely no idea on how to run this state, let alone on how to maneuver their way out of a wet paper bag. Decades of mismanagement, no fresh IMPLEMENTED ideas, giving wealth to the oil companies and pure disdain for the working stiff is exactly how we got here. If I weren’t so entrenched into this state being my home, I’d have already bailed.
So. No dividend, an income tax AND living in a state that has almost the highest cost of living (I said almost) surely isn’t ideal.
Lowering the cost of oil is not the problem. It’s Liberal policies of turning of the available land to drill that is killing production.
No income tax to pay a PFD. PFD needs to go away first.
Exactly! Thank you! My late husband was prophetic back in the 80s in saying the PFD was a bad idea from the beginning. Now the weasel wants the PFD and an income tax. Yes the gravy train is over Ms. Weasel! For you, I hope.
Sure! Let’s cash it out! Do the Mackey Plan.
50% of everything divided amongst the residents (cut off year should be 2024) and the rest to the state for the legislature to manage, with the caveat that no income tax may be instituted for 30 years! I’d vote for that!
Wow, she’s got the derangement syndrome bad. What a negative perspective. Praying for a change of heart and mind. I do believe we have the ability to bring in a golden age here in Alaska. Resources for the country, not takers, but givers 🙂
This level of grift and corruption makes Louisiana blush with embarrassment
I’d like to be able to say the Geissels’ gravy train is over. Alaska is a rich resource state. It’s who we are. It’s our strength. And she’s annoyed that fuel prices might go down!!?? So she likes inflation??!! Wow!
Notice the idea of cutting a bloated, ineffective government never crosses her mind
This is certainly a hot take by Giessel. She’s truly become a Trojan horse.
I wouldn’t give another extra dollar to fund education. We pay too much already and get dismal results in return…but the teachers and administrators sure live well and have great benefits and retirements for indoctrinating our kids with leftist ideology and sexual perversions. Public education is a grift and some of the worst socialists/communists in America are current or former public school employees. When I was in college the students who couldn’t hack a real degree program ended up in education. They were a joke and it’s those losers who are teaching your kids and demanding more and more while their PR campaign tries to convince us that their jobs are so tough and they’re all hero’s. Wake up.
She has become a Bill Walker UNION SCHILL. They all say the same things, over and over, more money for the Teachers Union, end the PFD check, need an Income Tax. All Union supportive measures put forth by the UNION PARTY of Geisel, Kelly Merrick, the whole Democrat, RINO mess of them. The schools belong to the Alaskan PEOPLE, not the Unions.
It is NOT a ‘cash handout’ – correct your thinking, Cathy! The PFD is a ‘dividend’ SHARE (definition: EQUITABLE portion) in the mineral wealth as a qualified resident of the State of Alaska. If a program or cause (set up ‘Education Fund’ as an option) is shown to be worth contributing to, let people Pick, Click and Give THEIR PFD (not you stealing it from them!)!
Three decades ago, as a cheechako to a small town on the Kenai, I attended an education meeting about – drumroll please – funding shortages in education! I remember asking a neighbor why they didn’t just use the PF to fund it. I’ll never forget her saying to me, “That money belongs to each Alaskan and will be better allocated to REAL local needs. If I (or other Alaskans) believe the school needs it, I’LL/WE’LL give them the money; but just handing any amount of money to any political group is NEVER the solution to a problem in Alaska because it’s NEVER ENOUGH for their greedy appetites to ‘do good’.”
And what probability of success can be guaranteed, even scientifically shown, by putting increased funding toward anything that appears to be a crisis (like suicide prevention or education)? It’s not money but rather morals – community fabric – that solves problems. Appropriate the money into the hands of families and people so they can help at the community level. We don’t want the government trying to solve problems from a committee in Juneau. Can you just do your job to legislate/stay in your swim lane?!?
Our family invested the statutorily calculated dividends received through the years into education accounts and graduated all of our kids out of university with ZERO DEBT. FAMILIES can manage money FAR BETTER than any politician for children’s education!
How about ceasing the building of more schools for fewer students, which do nothing for student outcomes?!? How about legislating school vouchers?!? How about a DOGE audit before ANY appropriations or bills are proposed at state or local levels? Is every State dollar being spent productively? Or could we recapture some that is really waste, fraud and abuse?
You are not a nanny! ‘Prepare the people’ ?!? – STOP THAT THINKING NOW!!! Find/manage money in what the State already has – make the current budget work – for ONLY things that STATE government is responsible for (check the Constitution)!
[My apology to the MRAK community for the rant – thank you for space to vent!]
She is unbelievable. Literally. We have $80 billion in that account. Low oil prices are good even for the oil companies. They build like crazy during low energy costs. Same goes for the mining industry, and road building. Low fuel prices are not all bad. It’s also good for tourism.
“And we’re going to have to make some serious decisions.” Then you should probably start getting serious instead of saying that taking money away from every Alaskan so a select few benefit will keep Alaskans from committing suicide. Stop proposing insane amounts of spending on top of the insane amounts of spending that you have already signed off on. Get serious, do your job, and figure out that the spending spree you’ve been on is unsustainable and you cannot tax this state into utopia. Get serious, stop talking crazy talk.
Total disgrace. RINO trying to scare people with that suicide talk. People need the PFD money you elitist snob. Cut the budget, you wanted the job so do it! Stop copping out the government has a spending problem. Fix it or resign! I am done with the Betrayal of The Alaskan people by traitors that caucus with the Marxist left!
Alaska needs to be DOGE’d starting in Juneau and making its way all the way down the chain… towns, boroughs, villages, school districts. The gravy train needs to stop on the spending and and wasting taxpayers dollars!!
Asking for more money with no accountability. Dems only have one answer to solving issues, more money. A budget that shows where the money went and goes would be nice.
I suspect the PFD will end eventually…just why are these people so antagonistic towards everyday people?
Sounds like she is a communist. Taking from the people; does she understand that taking everything from the people can cause suicides?
She thinks people are gonna commit suicide unless you take all their f****** money.
Get her out of there ?
Someone please take these angry nuts out to dinner give some love make dem sing show dem the light & maybe they will render to GOD what is GODS SO HELP YOU GOD OATH BREAKERS BOOOOOOOOO. Thank you Suzanne we called her immediately ma’am to complain clowns suck
Cathy Giessel shows her true colors once again. If DOGE required Cathy to submit a list of 5 tasks done last week, here’s what she’d list….
1. Feed the RINO
2. Water the RINO
3. Ride the RINO
4. Advocate for taxes like a RINO
5. Oppose President Trump at every opportunity, like a RINO…!!!!!
Geissel gets emails and answers letting the writer know she knows better. She believes we elected her now just let her do her job the way she wants regardless what her constituents want. It’s time she is replaced.
She must go.
Sign her up for a moose hunting trip with Mary out in the bush.
If she thinks suicide in the bush is caused by a lack of school funding, she hasn’t seen the bush schools!
I’ve been living in Alaska for almost 21 years. My home state was Connecticut.
When I was growing up, Connecticut had no income tax. However, in 1971, they kind of had one for 42 days. The outrage of the Connecticut voters caused the legislature to cancel their newly passed income tax and find alternatives to their deficit. They balanced their budget that year.
However, the state was not out of the woods. Remember, Connecticut is a blue state and in blue states their only solution to a fiscal problem is taxing.
20 years later, Connecticut’s spending finally brought about an income tax. So, in 1991, Connecticut finally got their house in order, right? No… Connecticut is the most deficient state in the country when it comes to their budget. From 2021:
“As Connecticut prepares to make a historic $1.6 billion payment toward its unfunded pensions, a new report shows Connecticut has the highest taxpayer debt of any state in the nation.
According to Truth in Accounting’s annual Financial State of the States 2021 report, Connecticut’s overall debt increased in 2020, leaving each taxpayer with an overall state debt burden of $62,500 per taxpayer.
The average debt burden across the country was $9,300 which, as the report notes, is $2000 worse than last year.
Using the latest Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Truth in Accounting found Connecticut’s total debt related to retirement costs, bonding and other debt totaled $79.5 billion.
Connecticut’s ranking in the report dropped from 48th in 2020 to 50th in 2021.
“Connecticut’s overall financial condition worsened by 18 percent during the pandemic mostly because pension plan liabilities increased faster than investment income, which catapulted the state to last place,” the report says.”
Now the lovely Ms. Giessel wishes the State of Alaska to follow suit. Alaska doesn’t need an income tax; it needs new blood in the legislature.
DRILL BABY DRILL! Developing natural resources is the only way to gain true new wealth, time for our state to support mining. Don’t forget President Trump has already pledged his support for a gas pipeline & is working on deals with Japan to buy the gas.
Huh? Sure, generate new opportunities for wealth creation is good. But that doesn’t address the elephant in our state, Overspending. How about we do both. Expansion of wealth creation is necessary of course. But spending money like drunken sailors is neither necessary or prudent. We need folks representing us who understand they are there to manage our state as efficiently, and effectively as possible; to apply dicsipline and control on our finances for we the people, for what is for the common good, not for special interest or their particular brand of ideology.
She looks like she’s suffering from Pissed Off Mama Syndrome in that picture!
Or terminal constipation
Government bloat and overspending in Alaska has a face. It is the face of Sen. Giessel. I don’t live in district E, but I will be sending money to whomever opposes her in the next election. The solution, completely lost on this senator, is not to choke more money out of the already overburdened working people, but to go through the state budget with a chain saw. Grossly out of touch, utterly oblivious, horribly mired down in the Juneau swamp. Pathetic.
Amen!
Let’s not keep throwing money at Our Education Problem!
An increase in the Quality of the Education is what is needed.
The people on the ground can either start giving proper lessons, or move along…
I’m always amazed at people who start as genuine Republicans, then gradually, steadily move to the Left. Didn’t four years of Biden’s “progressive” administration impart to us some hard-earned wisdom?
Politicians have been after the PFDs since day one. If they could be trusted with money it would be ok. But they cannot be trusted with money. The more they get the more they want, she wants the PFDs and income tax. I am someone who has been here almost as long as the Senator. We need DOGE in Alaska, especially Juneau and Anchorage.
Okay I am confused, if you don’t get a PFD and have to pay taxes, causing you to be unable to make ends meet, it somehow is supposed to make you NOT to be suicidal???? HUH?????
Giessel is Chicken Little. The sky is falling, the world is coming to an end and we are all going to die unless you give me what I want- your PFD and all your money so I can spend it. Just like ASD and the Anchorage Assembly. Notice any similarities??? They all need to go.
Currently, Alaska ranks 27th in education quality. We are number 1 in cost per child, $53,124! I say again, $53,124! Hello? And don’t tell me the same old song and dance, But, but, we live Alaska, where as we all know its expensive!@# Hog wash.
What needs to happen is for these progressive career politicians who have never seen a dollar of OP money they didn’t want to spend to get voted out. We need to actually start teaching that which is common to all the public in our schools, math, communication, true science, true history. All the other nonsense is just that. We need to cut the education admin staff and expenditures to near zero. We need school choice with vouchers.
And we need an audit of the education department. I am currently attempting to acquire annual budgets for the past 30 years. Need help. Is sad that we the ppl have to police our representatives, but we have no choice. They are untrustworthy.
Additionally, understand one thing. These same politicians are blowing through our PF and now, seeing an end to coming, are frantically searching for another well to tap. The only one remaining is us, the folks working our asses off to put food on the table. Make no mistake, If they are allowed to impose an income tax, they will continue their spending ways unabated until we are tapped out. They will nev er answer the question, is there a limit to spending beyond which even they will not go? They won’t answer because they know their answer would cause normies to start asking other questions. BTW, their answer, not spoken, is NO!
How did we get to this point where we keep electing governors, senators and representatives with their own agendas? These grifters ignore the peoples voices, their party’s agenda and shove their own policies down the taxpayers throat. I’m speaking of Sen. Giessel, Rep. Yundt and Kipp not to ever forget the actions of Gov. Walker. Charlatans, all of them! Despicable!
The picture should be captioned “And these are my favorite shadow puppets that I like to do in my spare time!”
Regime? While the term originally referred to any type of government, in modern usage it often has a negative connotation, implying authoritarianism or dictatorship.
Regime – Wikipedia
Someone needs to audit him (or her) and every single politician. Find where the waste is going. Follow the money……It always leads to the real problem.
Before we talk taxes and the end of the divided let’s bring in DOGE. I think that’s a fair deal. We see why they find and work toward an amicable solution.
Shut up and cut the d—– budget!
Senator Giessel, pissing money like a beer loaded firehose.
Couldn’t be spending is the issue Senator.
Tell me, what was the State operating budget when you entered the arena?
What was the Capital Budget.
There goes that firehose again. You never thought the flow of the almighty $$ would end.
Please do us all a favor and leave……………
This is a Murkowski doppleganger. I would say that ‘it doesn’t occur to them’ to -actually- cut the crap out of their cronyistic spending behavior. But they’re more than aware of that option, it’s just not. Theyre slavemaster mentality operates the same way government budgets do. We are subject to THEM. If they ‘let’ us get used to one quarter with less spending, then we may expect that in the future so be sure you spend every dime. She’s as big an existential threat to Alaska and Alaskans as Murkowski.
She misses the point completely.
Correct.
The State needs more revenue. PERIOD.
Incorrect:
Income tax and axing the PFD is not the answer.
Bottom line.
If we need more revenue…we need to develop more income opportunities.
Alaska needs to diversify, develop, and support lucrative economic opportunities. The only way for the state of Alaska to have more revenue is by building more business opportunities. Shall I say five or ten times more?
How many ways can the same thing be said over centuries now, to get through the wall we have been banging our heads against?
Every year, another sound byte, another quote, of yet another elected official misses the point.
Look, this I know. We have great minds and an amazing sense of innovation, we are hearty, work-loving, callous-handed people.
I happen to have a Master of Business Administration from the Jack Welch Management Institute. Jack Welch was a practical-thinking sensation. I respect him second in line to how much I love and respect my dad.
Being a statesman or woman appears complex. But it’s not.
From what I witnessed in Washington DC, the most effective statesmen and women employed the best staff. This does not mean they give jobs away to their family and friends. They hire the best from a variety of backgrounds, with strengths, tenacity, and a hunger to move our country forward.
Whoever advised Ms. Cathy to make this comment has effectively highlighted her lack of judgment and how out of touch she is with a baseline measurement, referred commonly to as the Gross Domestic Product.
This is a Call to Action – All State Elected Officials – get together and use one baseline measurement to rate the effectiveness of Alaska. Gross Domestic Product.
Too many hysterical women in Alaska politics. Until someone says that out loud, buckle up.
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