Alaska’s weakest economic link is its transportation to the U.S.
mainland, This can be improved only at costs now considered prohib
it iv - So 3:iy 3 BUS 1N33 3 WBaK,
It’s theconsensus of the Economic Advisory Council of the Ghost Town
Ga zotte that the above mentioned exemption from taxes that will be
allowed to "New Businesses" will necessitate that Alaska’s failing
businesses will have to "go broke" and "reorganize" so they can
qualify as "Now Businesses". Otherwise they arc sank.
Vve note that as the election campaign here in the Territory (yes,
it’s still a TBKiilTOKY) gathers momentum, many candidates are standing
up for anything the voters, will fall for.
Anybody who thinks ho isn’t neurotic those dayse must bo out of her
mind.
A conservatives One who believes in things forced on the world by
radicals of yesterauy.
Gratitude: a lively anticipation of favors yet to come.
The Anchorage Nows which has had the 3 mao and honesty to warn
* Alaskans against plunging into statehood without realizing what it
means came out recently with an editorial that started out this way1
,f $33 Million Nearly Budget for .Alaska is Unrealistic. " Then they
continue with this statement; " This should bo an I-told-you-so edit
orial but we refrain from this type of writing because it gains no
one single thing'."
However wo wore happy to note that they had not lost their honesty or
guts, they wore just making a bow to the silly notion that it i3 not n
nice to say i told you so, and they continued with most clear headed,
illuminating useful and generous statement of I told you. sc. How
people ever got the notion that it is not nice or useful to say 1 TOLD
YOU SO if hard to figure out. when pod wrapped ..d-.n and -Eve up in
fig loav s and to33od them out of Eden ho is reported in Genesis to
have remarked, "I told you so". The most kindly end devoted parents
1ind it necessary to tell the kids innumerable tine3 as th«y grow up,
1 TO..jL> YoU SO. It seems to bo the only practical way to get certain
indisponsible ideas into their head3•
11‘0Ncv*3 editor!,il continues: -"it is somewhat alarming, however, to
find that the first state legislature will bu presented with budget
r.quests almost exactly double the appropriation of the last territor
. iul legislature.
Thoro ero those - tho suno who told ua so loud .and so long that
statehood would not ddrto our CG3fca - who will a y that tho so extra
an icipat d expenditures have nothing to do v;ith statehood, that it 13
clc'o ndod by the orderly growth of a vigorous arm. This is for tho
birds•
Tho legislative council, which recently concluded a now ting in hod in1/
r ported that total budget requests fron nil department \ so far amount
to tho staggering total of .,33,570,000 for tho first ye nr of operation
f tho si.' to, Tho Inst appropriation for th territorial Hl.il* lUli
was ^38,649,0001 hccording to th03e poqu at.. it will coat as much to
run tho now state in the first your as it old t> wiv»r-'te tho Territory
for two years.
This baffling increase cannot bo h id to growth of ^ladcn. ,.l: ska
has n t grown to that extent in tho p' st two ye irs. Obviously the
added costa ire those that nro being generated by stat.hood.
Hut we must keep »ur foot on the ground nor, ftruly tunii vv r, Tho
honeymoon ia ever ana now cons the* stark ro'litim rf running our mw
state•
“ budget culling for doubling the expenditures of tho p- at
r.blf , inposaibio, und unrealistic. It is tho direct product
allam.
responsible, determined r.nd sensible legislature must be
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