Nearly a $4B budget shortfall and the best the Republicans can come up with is to cut an $11M scholarship program and push pension liability to the cities and towns?  Yet they are OK paying the oil companies more in credits than they recover in taxes.  

The scholarship cut is just stupid.  The oil tax imbalance is criminal.  The pension shift simply moves the liability to the people living in the cities and towns - in effect a new tax.   

If they do these things, I say, "hands off the Permanent Fund and forget an income tax."