Where I get fuzzy is where you keep equating taxes to retirements, again you are blaming working middle class people who pay into their retirement for the missteps of elected officials. As if we just cut all retirements and this all goes away. Look the financial mess the spending down of the CBR and all that has zero to do with the unfunded liability of pensions. It is just like Social Security some try to blame the deficit on that when it does not add one penny to the deficit. What if we weren't giving away our oil then maybe we would not be talking taxes. How about the Knik Bridge, Mat-Su rail extension, Road to Juneau, Susitna dam 3.0, Road to Ambler, LIO. Do you know right now we have steel sitting in storage for the so called Road to Juneau, it has been there for a decade and we are paying rent. Sir, when you try cut the retirement of middle class workers you end up paying more because now they cannot support themselves and they need all kinds of assistance.