House majority and minority offer new plans for budget future

Rep. Lance Pruitt, R- Anchorage, during a House minority press availability Thursday. Pruitt introduced a fiscal plan. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)House members from both sides of the aisle have put forward new ideas to balance the state government budget into the future.
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The co-chairmen of the House Finance Committee revised their plans to introduce an income tax to Alaska for the first time in nearly four decades.
Instead of basing the tax on 15 percent of residents’ federal