The $10,000 Question: Walker & Hoffbeck’s Plan to End the PFD

Former Gov. Bill Walker and former Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck join Alaska’s Political Pipeline to explain why they’re jumping back into the race—and why they say Alaska can’t move forward without a clear, stable fiscal plan. They break down their approach to resource revenue, taxes, and the state’s long-debated LNG gasline, and they defend their headline-grabbing proposal: a one-time $10,000 Permanent Fund Dividend payout tied to ending the PFD program to “get the 600-pound gorilla out of the room.”

Conversations about the people, issues and controversies getting political attention in Anchorage and  Alaska.  We'll go beyond the daily news to explore what issues are generating heat, why and how political decisions are made, what strategies campaigns are using, where the money is flowing and how the city and state are governed.