Old people might have to pay thousands more a year to live in the six Alaska Pioneer Homes starting this summer, according to one element in Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget bomb.
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The state budget is contentious enough that we don’t need state employees lying to Alaskans about contradictory statements by Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
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Donna Arduin, budget director for the moment, corrected Sen. Bill Wielechowski on how to pronounce her name in a hearing Friday, always a sign of a short-timer.
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In the end, Dunleavy conned Alaskans with happy talk about the Permanent Fund Dividend, never acknowledging that the real fiscal challenge facing Alaska is how to manage difficult tradeoffs. Those tradeoffs include balancing taxes and the demand for public services.
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“There is no conceivable way under which eliminating that much money from an economy that is already struggling actually helps it. I would love to see this analysis that shows that.”
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In my decades of covering Alaska politics, I can’t recall anything as irresponsible as the Dunleavy/Arduin budget. By slashing valuable state services and making no effort to consider their importance, the Dunleavy budget fails on all accounts. looking at the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
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This mess appears to be the result of Dunleavy handing over control of state government finances to temporary budget director Donna Arduin, who won’t be here to deal with the aftermath.
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The press in Alaska, with a few exceptions, failed to examine the details of Dunleavy’s budget pronouncements or check his ever-changing numbers. That might change now that he is proposing cuts of things he never suggested he would cut, setting up Republican legislators to face the wrath of Alaskans.
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Without some form of general taxation, it doesn’t matter how much we diversify Alaska’s economy with new jobs, new businesses, new products, new anything.
By Larry Persily
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Dunleavy is telling reporters that he is not cutting the budget at all, but his administration is building a new budget, which just happens to be smaller, so no one should say that the budget is being cut. Brilliant.
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