You're absolutely right and something needs to be done to keep the money in Alaska and pay some wages with it. The state's biggest export is money and profits going to outside businesses. The large chains offer lots of goods at reasonable prices but at what cost. Think of the multiple billions that have been shipped out that should have had healthy taxes attached or wages that left the state unattached or you can think of a multitude of outside interests that escaped laughing all the way to the bank, it's actually criminal and now who is set up to pay the taxes, the Alaskan resident and all of it can be attributed to Alaskan representatives who made their killings. It's election time and we need to keep the good ones and unfortunately the crooks will be dropping out.