You're mostly correct Mr Donkel, however oil & gas workers are no more responsible for $60b in state savings, than the man-in-the-moon.  It's OUR oil and gas that are responsible for that, not the planeloads of okies, arkies and texans, that fly in and out every day, contributing nothing more to AK than buying a sandwich at the airport.

And the majors have long since learned that it's much easier, cheaper and lucrative, to drill in Juneau, than on the slope.  They've found that it's very easy to bribe, cajole, flatter, manipulate and bamboozle... the idiots in our legislature, into handing them AK's mineral wealth. 
It's high time that the job of assigning oil tax rates, was taken away from these utter incompetents.

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