I consider myself a strong conservative - just a bit to the right of Ghengis Khan - but whenever I see Mr. Thayer's name attached to anything - I just have to go the other way. He is probably a decent person with a decent family- but he is the quintessential stuffed shirt bureaucrat who projects in a manner which gets him appointed to positions that make you wonder how people think. He wouldn't know up from down - and certainly is not a spokesman the anti tax element of alaska should be using for their position. Of course we should have an income tax - it's the only way we are going to hold these poorly educated legislators feet to the fire. They ain't all that bright either. 

There are people somewhere between his idiotic writing and the stupid venom of shannyn moore and Elise P. that can craft a position alaskans can live with. Lord protect us from these extremes in the newspaper.