Best quote of the day:

  "Why should working Alaskans be asked to pay for these oil-industry subsidies?" Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage.

The Senate is not going to give Alaskans a balanced package that does not harm our economy or Alaska families.  The only course of action is to start over in the next legislative session- with new legislators.

The priorities must be:

Getting Alaskans a fair return for our oil, which will reduce the deficit by billions of dollars.

Ending corporate welfare which the Senate has refused to do (makes their employers unhappy).

Reform state spending so that Alaskans have confidence that if they are asked to pay new taxes that those hard earned dollars will not be wasted on:

Travel junkets by legislators, $32.5 million for the Tajmahawker, $70 million for an obscenely expensive legislature- per year, and hundreds of other wasteful expenditures.

Alaskans will pitch in- we always do when times are tough- but we must have equitability.