This bears repeating: "The savings spent since the budget deficits started, added to this coming year's deficit, could have provided annual investment income of more than $600 million. That's$850 for every Alaskan, every year, forever."

"A partial solution, even if unfair and poorly structured, could at least be fixed in the future."  The problem with that logic is reality doesn't follow.  Oil taxes for example.  ACES was poorly structured.  But did they try to fix it?  No.  They gave us SB21, something even worse.  And now that its flaws are in the sunlight, they aren't fixing that either.  Any craftsman will tell you, "Measure twice, cut once."  These legislators are definitely not craftsmen.  Lacking any useful talent, they became politicians.