With no surprise, I note that missing from the "4 principles" of these legislators is the principle of: "maintain a streamlined state government that lives within its means".  The state government was built on oil revenues, and it's not living within the means of oil revenues today.  It's bloated.  It's bloated by $2.5 billion a year.  Gardner and Begich are just like Walker - public bureaucracy preservationists that want to pass the cost of a bloated government on to the private sector.