No reflection against you, Mitchak, because I agree with you in principle.  Just a general rant - "Now if only all people would be reasonable ..."  So, a state income tax would seem to be reasonable?  Along with a sales tax?  And a luxury tax?  An increase in the gas tax?  Eliminating the tax credits?  Taxing the Oilies on the gross, instead of the net?  Cutting 8,000 top and middle management government/U of A jobs?  Eliminating the travel associated with scholastic sports?  No LIO in Spenard, just back to the old fashioned working out of a spare bedroom when not in session?  Table the gas-line for now?  No more "roads/bridges-to-nowhere"?  And etc. and etc.?  Everyone needs to shoulder the burden equally, right?

I see that most everyone's idea of "reasonable" is whatever it takes, just as long as their ox isn't the one getting gored.  Their "reasonable" is what got us into this mess, and it is what is keeping us in this mess, and it is why we never have nice things for very long.