Alaska's oil/gas taxing systems are perhaps expected of some despotic 3rd world dictatorship, but BigOil has manipulated the Legislative chess pieces to put it in place right here. Without effective ETHICS REGULATIONS for the Legislature, we will see our PFDs, then the PF bled dry. Alaska is being legally, but unethically smothered by our own system which is in dire need of widespread overhaul. We have the ability through the INITIATIVE to impose effective, pragmatic rules on our legislature.  Short of that, we face fiscal suffocation.
  We owe nothing to BigOil. We should have a strictly business relationship with BigOil & other big businesses, primarily adversarial when it comes to how the pie is divided.