Yes, the operating budget needs to be cut by $1 billion in real money, or by $1.5 billion or more if we use the smoke and mirrors accounting that has so far prevailed such as taking earnings from the PCE endowment and calling that a cut because it replaced GF (don't blame us for flocking to Donald Trump when even elected Republicans lie to us like that!).  And cuts of that magnitude cannot hold the BSA and Medicaid harmless - it's the arithmetic.  Basically, while Alaskans figure out how we can survive in a post-petroleum economy we need government to be reduced to roads, police and schools.  And roads is maintenance, not construction.  Police is the Department of Public Safety, and nothing else.  And school spending needs to be limited to putting teachers in an existing classroom; no construction, no meals, no executives, no sports travel, none of the excesses that oil money subsidized.  And we need to dishonorably discharge any Republican who would support an income tax!