A modest school tax or income or sales tax would help a lot to fix the issue.  We used to pay income tax, before that a school tax.  It`s time we weaned ourselves off of sole dependency of a conflicted and corrupted and low-taxed Alaskan legacy oil industry, that has employee/lobbyists pretending to be Alaskan statesmen and women who are primarily oil industry sock puppets playing the game to feather their own, and in MORE than a few cases their or their spouse`s bosses in the oil industry`s "nests", (ie SB21 and the drawn out sessions accomplishing little of value fiscally to solve the state`s budget problems, but making the legislators a nice bonus at high federal rates).
  We need to see Grenn's ethics bill front and center here pretty soon, or it`s going to be a tough row to hoe on OILY Juneau lifer politicians as long as I`m vertical (knock on wood..). I hope you feel the same. adn.com/politics/article/series-conoco-employees-help-ease-oil-tax-bill-through-legislature/2013/03/28