Mr. Seaton's cards he wishes to play are  "tax more and spend more."  This is not a winning formula.

Add to his list, "take my dividend" and "renig on good faith promises that were made to stimulate investment to solve southcentral's very real energy crisis". Brilliant!  

By any benchmark, Alaska has a spending problem. We have the highest per-capita state general fund budget in the country, way out of proportion to our needs. We have the highest ratio of public employees to residents they serve, the highest wages and benefits per public sector employee of any state but DC--by a wide margin. By extension of logic, too many Alaskans rely on government largesse. Our Government's unsustainable size and appetite for money is the problem--not under taxation.  

The D's mantra that we can't cut our way out of this problem, or that to do so will cause a recession, is an excuse for not wanting to. Mr. Seaton--contrary to Mr. Wohlforth's wishful thinking---will end up alone in left field.