Thanks Rep. Gara for laying it out there.  Now I want to hear the logic in the arguments for the Senate`s intransigence at facing that gulf in the budget.  What do they want to do? keep increasing crime from their actions and inactions?,.. and cut even more the agencies that deal with that crime and the poor education that leads to much of it? The Alaska state senate should be ashamed if it again acts against the soundest fiscal tools available to the people and state as a whole and as a sovereign. We elected them to do it,..and they need to get it done (balancing the budget for Alaska going forward).
 Make the taxes go away after ten years if we are out of the fiscal woods if you like..  but act now for Alaska.  No more kicking the can down the road from the oily and conflicted and illegally gerrymandered Alaska state Senate.