There are lots of families with young children in Alaska. If we keep cutting, especially to education and pre-school or kindergarten gets cut, the cost for childcare can be as much as a permanent fund dividend every month ($1,000). A small tax pales by comparison.  Details matter in the lives of people. At school the children are educated and cared for. If kids are at home without care because parents are working, the burden on social services and the legal system is easily connected. This is just one example of how political ideology, by legislators who don't think through unintended consequences affect people. This isn't representation. It is manipulation. 

The same legislators in the Senate Majority who voted to give $350 million dollars to private refineries and a fertilizer plant that isn't even open for business and for excessive credits to private oil companies are the ones who have forgotten that their constitutional duty in forming a budget is to us, the people of Alaska.