Illusions....  Most Alaskans make no net payment for any State or Local services.  There it is. So whimpering about tax load is almost laughable. The only folk who really pay taxes in Alaska are 1%ers, and we all know where that discussion is going. 

No sense talking about shifting the PFD, because that scam is a shell game with a bad end. Why?  Because most in Alaska really use their PFD to fund their contribution to local government, that's why. And once you let the bully boys into reserved funds, you have the foxes camped in the henhouse - good luck.

Nor can we as a State cut anything near enough to maintain the quality of life, and ever focus group massaged by very elected ideologue to argue the contrary has foiled its promoter, eventually noting that additional taxing is acceptable in order to maintain quality of life, as long as tax revenues are not wasted....