text: Pay your fair share of taxes for what, so that all of the out of state businesses can send the profits made here in this state somewhere else. Government positions will be cut but until now that was one of the ways to get the oil money infused back into the economy. Since we have no IRS up here to help get the oil money back into the system, paying government employees provided a way. Also the government providing money for projects that unions worked on was another way and essentially made union employees into government employees. Since Alaska really has no exports, oil was what provided the income, 95% of the budget that paid everybody and probably 90% went to businesses that shipped the profits out of state ultimately.
  One might think that all of the people up here, whatever group would work together to quell the money drain. Our biggest export is money. Everybody provides a function that is needed to keep the state going and this bickering and wasting time is plain stupidity.