Mr. Knudson - Maybe you should cool the "socialist" & racist bumper-sticker ranting,  & open your eyes - apparently for the first time - to the challenging governance realities of Alaska's daunting geographic size, multiple climate zones, culturally distinct regions and multiple types of extreme climates  - & quit expecting our small population behemoth State to operate like Rhode Island.   If large-scale  government involvement in Alaska is your problem, then you'd have been whining the same song continually since before WW2!  Maybe when the feds and the State stop subsidizing oil, mining, timber, fishing you can complain  about providing Constitutionally mandated equal services to non-road communities in a State 3x bigger than Texas  - & maybe AK kids choose to get their first independent living experience in the Lower  48 to become more aware of what that world is like - and because AK provides student loans that permit them free choice. Learn about Alaska first, then rant!