"Legislative budget tricks and false promises imperil state economy" I hate to break it to you Mr. Cole but Alaska is beyond an imperiled economy. It is a basket case on the operating table with no doctor in charge of the operation. IF the administration and legislature were to follow Mr. Robin Brena's plan to fix our budget, we would be in recovery mode. 

What the legislature is planning, sans Governor Walker, is a formula for guaranteeing an economic disaster. Fiddling with the PF and imposing a tax is the worst possible policy to adopt when the people of Alaska are on the financial ropes. It is time to bite the financial bullet and TAKE what is ours by ridding ourselves of tax credits for the big three, tax Prudhoe and Kuparuk at a higher rate, cut bloat by reducing redundancies and overlapping programs, and begin the process of taking our fair share of OUR oil and gas resources.