State of Alaska Archives: on Corporations

Dan Sullivan: Weaken Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Dan Sullivan: Loosen. Co-sponsored 2019 act to weaken Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Al Gross: No position found.

Bill Walker: Invest 1% from Permanent Fund in new business startups

Walker argued his stewardship of the state through four rocky years of falling revenues and budget cuts, and passage this year of a major restructuring of state finances shows a solid record. If the ship of state were kept on course with him at the helm the fiscal restructuring could be finished--it is not yet done, Walker acknowledged--and restored business confidence would lead to new investment and the economy lifting itself.

One idea Walker offered up was to invest a small percentage of the Permanent Fund, something around 1 percent, to help new Alaska business startups. The governor cited a small oyster farm he visited in Southeast Alaska where demand is exceeding the ability to supply, and yet the small company can't see a path--or financing--to grow.

Mike Chenault: I know how business works and I know how government works

Chenault lost his job as speaker in 2016, when three of his fellow Republicans aligned with Democrats to create a bipartisan majority. In 2014, Alaskans also put an independent in the governor's office, Bill Walker, and Chenault doesn't think it's been going that well.

Donald Trump: Historic tax cuts and reforms for American businesses

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP said, "Tuesday is a day hardworking Americans may dread more than any other. Tax Day. A day that individuals and families, small business owners and part-time workers struggle to conquer a burdensome, complex and extremely unfair tax code to determine how much money they owe the government. But we are changing Tax Day for Americans across the country. This is the last year Americans will fill out outdated, complicated tax forms. In the years ahead, because I signed one of the largest tax cuts in history and the most sweeping tax reform in a generation, many Americans will complete their taxes on a simple, single sheet of paper."

Bill Walker: Increase certain business licensing fees to raise money

Joe Miller: Multinational corporations exert power over party duopoly

A: The nation to a certain degree faces a duopoly where both parties are effectively doing the same thing, and that's growing the expanse of power in Washington, D.C. There's an enormous degree of power that's exerted against both parties by multinational corporations. You see that with the [Trans-Pacific Partnership]. You see that with respect to crony regulations and statutes that are embedded in the laws at the behest of lobbyists. You see that even down to the impact that we're seeing today economically in the country, with middle class having immediate net worth that is lowest in decades. The people aren't being properly represented.

Sarah Palin: Governor must act as effective CEO on behalf of Alaskans

As manager of our vast public resources, the Governor must act as an effective CEO on behalf of all Alaskans in negotiating the best deals for the state, and I am prepared to tackle that challenge.

Sarah Palin: Encourage small business growth by reducing business taxes