Norway's fund is astronomical because they never got rid of their strong income tax and other diversified revenues, they never started handing out money to every man, woman, and child, and they tax oil companies at 78 percent. It's Alaskan residents who have been robbing the Permanent Fund. "Keep your hands off my money!" "Don't tax me for services, programs, and education!" "Don't repeal SB21!" What a bunch of poorly informed babies.

Bill Will is a cynical opportunist willing to run the state into the ground in order for his caucus to take power. Rick Halford and Clem Tillion are doddering old men living in the past who would rather bury their heads in the sand than find solutions to the fiscal crisis.