Scaling back some of the oil and gas tax credits but making sure that small oil and gas operators are not harmed makes sense. Then kill the TajMaHawker. Cut and kill all other pie in the sky special projects. Finally, use the CBR for what it was designed to do. That is, filling in budget gaps so that more work can be done to restructure our oil and gas taxing regime to bring maximum benefits to Alaska with OUR oil, develop incentives that finds new oil for TAPS, and get more jobs for Alaskans in the oil and gas business. 

After this session, in the interim, the governor along with like minded legislators should work on a comprehensive taxing policy and structural change on all of our resources that we have jurisdiction over. It will take time to make things right because the budget mess was created over the last 20 years. We can't go at this massive problem and expect to fix it in 90 days.