text: Lets start with the state funds used to keep the airports, Anchorage and Deadhorse operating.   All those traveling to and from the slope are using them and paying nothing to the state coffers.   We subsidize the Alaska Railroad and the highways that brings materials to Fairbanks; plus the cost of the roads to the slope.  The port facilities where supporting materials arrive for the slope.   Without all of these items  there  there would be no jobs.