With more job losses predicted for 2017, home values will start to drop as people leave the state in search of a job. City revenue will drop even with a sales tax, so property tax rates won't go down since the value did. In the end people still pay and get less.

It's time to cut the frills in Anchorage.  No more flowers on the lamp poles, no more art work in public schools,  no more fancy administration offices, each supervisor no longer needs multiple administration assistants, no more trips to foreign countries to see their systems,  no more studies and grants for projects that never get going. 

I could cut a ton of crap and still lower taxes. Most would never miss what's cut.