Hey Lynn, Alaska cannot tax our way prosperity AND we certainly cannot spend our way to prosperity. It's past time for you and your colleagues to evaluate all of the excessive expenditures and end them immediately. Examples:  1) the purchase of a new Anchorage LIO building in Spenard (What's wrong with the much less expensive Atwood Building?),  2) Legislative Executive Director, Pam Varni's, half a million annual income (Retirement + new high salary added on), 3) Legislators' monthly Juneau per diem at around $6,000.00 (Why not reimburse actual expenses? If you pay $1,600 as monthly rent in Douglas, why should you be able to keep the total you receive?), 4) Outrageously high oil tax credits given to BigOil, 5) 54 separate school districts in Alaska (each with their own highly paid superintendent and duplicative finance, personnel, maintenance, textbook, inservice/training departments, and 6) The toll-free Haul Road to the Slope (Why should we pay all expenses?) -- Barbara