0:36
Speaker A
83:44 - 84:21
"the pressure that we're feeling, right, it's state-created, it's federal policy-created with this cost of living, cost of expenses. Uh, uh, rev, uh, explosion that we've experienced this year. So, um, and I personally, I think that this is the kind of year where we look at interest income and how that we can make that, how we can make that work for taxpayers"
“the pressure that we're feeling, right, it's state-created, it's federal policy-created with this cost of living, cost of expenses. Uh, uh, rev, uh, explosion that we've experienced this year. So, um, and I personally, I think that this is the kind of year where we look at interest income and how that we can make that, how we can make that work for taxpayers”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 83:44 – 84:21
- Community
- Alaska News
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- May 14, 2026
From the transcript
And the pressure that we're feeling, right, it's state-created, it's federal policy-created with this cost of living, cost of expenses. Uh, uh, rev, uh, explosion that we've experienced this year. So, um, and I personally, I think that this is the kind of year where we look at interest income and how that we can make that, how we can make that work for taxpayers, um, right? Not spending down the corpus, but using what's the legally available earnings, um, to avoid forcing some very difficult, um, choices, um, onto the, uh, taxpayers, um, in one year.
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