The #akleg has a surplus of spending "experts." Virtually every legislator has ideas about how the state should spend money. It has virtually no revenue experts, however. Most just accept the revenues presented to them as is, without thought as to whether there are better ways to raise them.

Sadly, at their core, many of the problems faced by the state are revenue-driven. By failing to have any members that even see them that way, much less capable of working on solutions to them, the #akleg is making them worse.