Don't get me wrong - I do not favor salary reductions - I merely point to my feelings that it could take salary reductions and massive layoff of full time employees in schools, DOT, HSS - before enough of the public understands what doing without really means for their quality of life - and their willingness to support an income tax. I don't think enough people get that yet. They certainly get the PFD fight and the oil tax credit fight. 

I fully support all the legislative efforts to find a workable solution - but I remain convinced that the biggest impediment is that the public doesn't know how much government they are truly willing to support - and never will - until they know what doing without looks like.