The biggest roadblock is those who believe just cut the budget back to some magical level of a past year is how to fix everything.  For we all know nothing cost more today than it did back in that magic year.  Yet I can not get enough business, utilities of service providers to cut back prices to the same magic year levels. So how will say the State budget from some year in the past pay the bill of the current prices?  This process also includes magic trick number two: just  cut out things we don't need. Certainly there a lot of support for those services you personally never use to be cut. But the ones you personally need must stay.  A great example is the reduction in Trooper patrols on the Seward highway. I only drive there a few time a year so having no patrols does not affect me. However the commuters and individuals who drive that road quite often feel different about the cuts.