Finally. It's only taken 2 years but at last sacred payments to the oil industry are on the table. Alaska must be in really bad shape. Please call your Senators and  House members and urge them to support this bill. We must not go broke paying kickbacks to profitable multibillion dollar corporations in the name of "competition" with other oil producing regions.
To those saying the solution is to close all schools outside of Anchorage and Fairbanks, the state constitution and courts will not permit this (even leaving aside the fairness aspect). UA tutition has gone up by double digits in recent years. "Lazy" state workers are already stretched thin providing basic services. There is nothing more to cut, we have to earn some revenue.