While I agree there is ample room to cut spending within the Alaska government.... I am at a loss when you say "Conservative" legislators,  do you mean the fools who have been giving the oil and gas industry billions of dollars in tax credits for the past decade?  The same fools who want to give upwards of a billion in the next fiscal year to the oil and gas industry, more than Alaska would collect in royalties and production taxes?

No, there are NO fiscal conservative legislators, they all want to spend or give the money away.  What you call conservative legislators Steve have squander more on boondoggle ideas than have been spent on actual productive infrastructure.  Look no further than the Port of Anchorage.