The $3.5 billion our "conservative" Legislature will take from our savings this year means that EVERY SINGLE YEAR FROM NOW ON - we will lose $160 million/year in interest earnings that could be used to help cover government costs.  Instead, those costs will need to be covered by taxes as savings vanish.-- If you  plan on leaving Alaska  then you won't care. If you are staying, the more stolen from our savings now,  the steeper our taxes will have to be in 2-3 years, and the worse & more unreliable the services we enjoy now - interactions with all government offices, police response & court delays, building permits, snow removal, food safety, health & safety inspections, road & preventative maintenance, local tax rates, etc. will get. A 01.5% income tax, and a "sunshine"halt to unwarranted oil incentives could make our future FAR less costly, & more predictable. If we couple that with the PFD money we just took from the expendable income of the poorest Alaskans, we should all be OK.