The Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (Becky Bohrer/AP) For more than a quarter century, Alaska has had oil booms and busts, governors of every stripe, and no shortage of task forces with glossy binders filled with plans promising better days. What we have lacked is a durable fiscal plan. Instead, we’ve looped the same argument: put the Permanent Fund dividend above everything else, don’t impose broad-based taxes, pray for higher oil prices, raid savings when the math doesn’t pencil out.
