If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

Polls right now are meaningless, ... None of us have spent enough money to communicate to the voters.

I think sometimes there is no right thing.

Alaska, in many respects, is a cheaper tax place to do business and should be a very attractive place for companies to locate or expand in.

If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.

Alaska has the third best tax system for business in the nation for the second year in a row.