Keep beating your drum that rural Alaska doesn't pay their own way, Kearon.  Many parts of rural Alaska does have an economy.  While you sit snug as a bug in a rug, rural Alaskans pay a lot higher costs for fuel, food, housing, shipping, and air transportation.  If most of the villagers didn't have some source of income, how do they pay $8 per gallon of fuel or $600 round trip to Anchorage or Fairbanks?  Where do 5,000 villagers get their money to pay for their week-long trips to Anchorage or Fairbanks during AFN week?  State government surely doesn't pay these expenses.  But than you're not interested in playing on a level playing field are you?