Okay Lynn, I will try to respond to your sarcasm with facts.  It costs about ten times more per mile to travel by ferry than by road.  The weight of the cars on the ferry is merely 3% of the weight of the boat; accordingly, that transportation mode is 97% inefficient.  Common sense tells us to make the ferry portion of any transportation link the shortest... and the road portion the longest.    The longer the road is in service the more money it saves the taxpayers.   As to your employment comment, it is actually more logical to give Alaskans money in exchange for productive work rather than in exchange for watching soap operas (dividends).   As you should know, the health of any economy is based on production--not money.   Reference Thomas Sowell, "Basic Economics" and Milton Friedman, "Free to Choose."

PS... Sarcasm works way better when it is supported by actual facts.