text: Agreed.    Per diem should be by receipts only, up to the monthly max, for starters.   There is absolutely no reason that Juneau and/or Anchorage legislators should receive the same per diem as say, someone from Bethel.    All salaried and hourly state employees (including legies) should have their pay cut 10% before they cut the non-state people's income.   There needs to be an out-of-state travel ban, except for emergencies.   We are in a recession, and protecting state workers comes at the price of job loss and income loss in the private economy.   That should not happen.   Do we want to have private citizens demonstrating and pointing at the state workers and saying, "YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF OUR POVERTY?"