I feel like this is a pretty terrible analogy. The voting population of Alaska is comprised of adults. Not children to be parented. The structure of power bet

I feel like this is a pretty terrible analogy. The voting population of Alaska is comprised of adults. Not children to be parented. The structure of power between federal gov and states is explicitly designed to give states the freedom to experiment with different policies (the whole "Laboratories of democracy" thing). You think this cut will do lots of damage. The voting population in Alaska (or their duly elected representatives) believe otherwise. Given that there's no magic ball to tell you how this will work out, it's blatantly un-democratic to claim you know better than the voters. Instead we get to watch what happens to a university system when you cut the operating budget in half with little warning and no planning. --- My hypothesis is that it's going to go badly, but I'm not sure by any means. It could be that these drastic cuts force the university system to trim real administrative fat, it could force them to be creative with purchasing and contracting to cut costs. It could have no real impact whatsoever.