{"id":18035,"date":"2017-02-28T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-senate-leader-passing-a-permanent-fund-bill-critical\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:26:11","slug":"alaska-senate-leader-passing-a-permanent-fund-bill-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-senate-leader-passing-a-permanent-fund-bill-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Senate leader: Passing a Permanent Fund bill critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) \u2014 The majority leader of the Alaska Senate says he will consider this session a success if lawmakers pass the state operating and infrastructure budgets and a bill that allows for structured draws from Alaska\u2019s oil-wealth fund.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Peter Micciche (mih-CHIK-ee) told reporters Monday that when you add \u201cextreme cuts\u201d or broad-based taxes to the mix, you begin to \u201cpolitically complicate\u201d matters.<\/p>\n<p>He says the one measure to address the deficit that must pass this year involves structured draws from the earnings of the Alaska Permanent Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Several bills are pending in the Legislature addressing fund earnings.<\/p>\n<p>A version in the House Finance Committee also proposes an income tax, while a version proposed by the Senate Finance Committee seeks to place a new limit on future spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) \u2014 The majority leader of the Alaska Senate says he will consider this session a success if lawmakers pass the state operating and infrastructure budgets and a bill that allows for structured draws from Alaska\u2019s oil-wealth fund. Republican Sen. Peter Micciche (mih-CHIK-ee) told reporters Monday that when you add \u201cextreme cuts\u201d or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18035"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}