What I take away from this commentary is that, as was the case with Carol Comeau when she was Superintendent of Anchorage Schools,  you simply cannot raise enough revenue to please Mr. Wohlforth.  It can't be done.
What we need is to understand is that the paradigm has changed and that we are entering a "post oil" Alaska.  The "Californication" of  Alaska (to borrow a term I first read being used by the late Seattle Columnist Emmett Watson to describe his feigned dismay at the changes he saw to his beloved State of Washington caused by an influx of "Californians and New Yorkers") is simply no longer affordable and we must now decide what government services we "need" and can sustain in our new economic reality as opposed to  those government services we "want"  yet cannot sustain.