text: Lock in the PFD.  Got it.  So then what?  Oil prices won't save us.  Pipeline flow isn't going to skyrocket in the next decade or more.  We can't cut our way to a balanced budget.  Even if the legislature discovered the spine to defy their masters and eliminate the tax credits we'd still be billions short.
  
  That only leaves taxes.  Paying for $2 billion of the budget, probably a lot more, would cost every Alaska over $2,700 per year.  And since more than half of them don't have earnings, every worker would have to pay more than $5,000 per year.  
  
  And since we all know that the legislators, even after minor housekeeping, lack the cojones to establish a tax, where does that leave us?  Bankrupt.  And wiping out the PF anyway.
  
  Before you take options off the table, provide some solutions that aren't based on fantasy thinking.