2018 AK Governor's race: on Tax Reform


Mead Treadwell: Invest Permanent Fund to create dividends instead of taxes

The first thing I would say is that we have made a change so that we are using part of the Permanent Fund income for avoiding taxes. I want to have a full dividend, make sure that we're not taking from the dividend, but I have championed the POMV (percent of market value) concept as a member of Commonwealth North's board, as president of Commonwealth North, since 2007.

And what that means is, you build the Permanent Fund as big as you can build it. You take just 5 percent of it every year, that's exactly what the Gates Foundation does, the Ford Foundation does. We take that 5 percent, say if it's a $70 billion Permanent Fund, that's $3.5 billion. You inflation proof and then split the difference between the dividend--and it will be a growing dividend, not a capped dividend--and avoiding taxes.

Source: Anchorage Daily News on 2018 Alaska gubernatorial race Aug 16, 2018

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