"Sustainable budget is a work in progress?"

Good to see the editor has a sense of humor.

Rep. Chenault might think that maintaining $775,000,000 in oil tax credit/subsidies for Big Oil is sustainable.  Apparently it is as long as the Legislature is able to reach into the pockets of every Alaskan and steal $1,000 to pay for it- as the vacationing Lesil McGuire and Senate majority voted to do.

Fortunately a bipartisan House majority can see "behind the curtain," and are ignoring the Wizard of Oz's instructions to "pay no attention."  Until an unsustainable and uneconomic corporate subsidy program is "reformed"- and terminated, the desired "consensus" will remain elusive.

The bottom line is that legislators were sent to Juneau to solve the fiscal crisis and end the deficit this year- not next year.  It may be "hard work" and "frustrating," but the summer has only just begun.

p.s. Full disclosure:  I am a ConocoPhillips shareholder