{"id":118595,"date":"2025-05-04T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/letter-some-fiscal-realities-should-be-self-evident\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:30:00","slug":"letter-some-fiscal-realities-should-be-self-evident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2025\/05\/04\/letter-some-fiscal-realities-should-be-self-evident\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Some fiscal realities should be self-evident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alaska legislators:<\/p>\n<p>Our need for an educated, rationally informed voting majority to sustain our pursuit of justice, or &ldquo;egalitarian fairness,&rdquo; can only be achieved when those of us with genuine consideration for this constitutional command, and oath-taking deference, recognize a mandatory deferral of any contemporaneous needs, and the forbearing of our personal resplendent glory, to insure our children with an ability to discover their fulfilling pursuit of these enumerated goals, by way of that private covenant, publicly and equally administered statewide.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, all else in your capital and operating budget deliberations, most notably this affliction with a statutory PFD, need be of reduced relevance when my state&rsquo;s absurdly personal income tax limitations delimit our revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Educate the atheists&rsquo; purpose for Golden Rule (do unto others&#8230;) living in the private and public sectors, the benefits of &ldquo;synergy&rdquo; enabled with trust in one another and a future of private and public quality for all, can be assured. Religious premises only atomize society and culture. &#8203;As an elected leader your job is to inspire e pluribus unum.<\/p>\n<p>John Sonin<\/p>\n<p>Douglas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alaska legislators:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":118596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[97,106],"class_list":["post-118595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter: Some fiscal realities should be self-evident - Juneau Empire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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