You have a great heart Carmen - and maybe your foresight is correct - BUT - the people of Alaska - at large - did not create this problem together. The legislature did. There is not a lot of "we" in Alaska. Juneau is closer to Seattle than to Nome. The Kenai peninsula doesn't have much sympathy for Anchorage - which can't even impose a sales tax to help themselves when we pay that plus property tax. Even Juneau is rich from the incredible historical flows of state and federal money. 

But the biggest problem is that the population at large - disconnected from each other as we are - has zero idea of what truly serious curtailment of state spending will mean in their own lives. And no amount of "the sky is falling" talk or "wringing our hands"  - is going to be taken seriously - until people actually feel the difference - and finally get to decide for themselves - just how much state government they really are willing to pay for. 

Why don't you start in Anchorage?? Show us a sales tax.