I think just the opposite.  The PFD should be off the table and the income and sales tax should be done.  Taking away or cutting the PFD would hurt too many Alaskans.

"Senate Republican leaders proclaimed they were not interested in 'getting into the tax business' while failing to put forward a deficit-reduction proposal of their own."

Taxes are part of your job.  Don't think we're not seeing how you do your job.  And I'm not a Democrat.  >:(