Morrigan wrote: "What do you think of forcing non-profit corporations to make payments in lieu of taxes?"

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You mean like Providence Health Care? I would be in favor of taking a serious look at corporations and family foundations that are used to shelter profits and administrators getting big fat pay checks by using a strict set of standards and non-partisan review. But Alaska has been cutting public services, that were originally inadequate, and eliminating revenue sharing with communities. This has placed too many citizens in peril; many non-profit corporations fill in the gaps left by the politicians in cities and in Juneau. Of course, that makes it all that more important that the corporate business sector carries some water for once instead of sucking up as much as possible from the public trough as it has for so long. The Chamber of Commerce, here in Anchorage, is really just a bunch of cry babies who think they should have it all with no ill consequences for misbehavior.