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    "deck": "Local leaders in Interior and Southcentral Alaska are pushing back on a tax break bill for the Alaska LNG pipeline, saying it could shift costs to taxpayers.",
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    "body_md": "Local leaders along the route of the proposed Alaska LNG gasline project are pushing back on a tax break bill that developers support. Communities in Interior Alaska and Southcentral Alaska, where the pipeline would run, say the bill could shift financial risk away from developers and onto local taxpayers.\n\nIf tax revenue is reduced under the bill, those communities could feel it directly in their budgets and services. Local taxpayers may see higher costs to cover the gap, the opposite of the economic win the project has long been promoted as.\n\nThe Alaska LNG project has been pitched for years as a major economic driver for the state. But the tax break debate has surfaced new tension over who benefits from the pipeline long term and who carries the financial downside.\n\nCommunity leaders along the route say they are working to keep that burden off local taxpayers. The dispute does not end the project, but it does complicate its path forward, and more debate over taxes, revenue and local control is expected as it moves ahead.",
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        "a": "A bill tied to the proposed Alaska LNG gasline that local leaders say could shift financial risk from developers onto taxpayers in affected communities.",
        "q": "What tax break bill is causing pushback?"
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        "a": "Communities in Interior Alaska and Southcentral Alaska, along the pipeline route, where the impact would be most direct.",
        "q": "Which areas are pushing back on the gasline tax bill?"
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        "a": "No. The dispute complicates the project's path forward but doesn't end it.",
        "q": "Does this stop the Alaska LNG project?"
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        "q": "Who has final say on the tax bill?"
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