The message being forwarded with the citizen initiative ballot measures is one of municipal gluttony. Propositions one and two tell you to vote to cut everyone's taxes because the City and Borough of Juneau has far too much money, and really should have less of it. But looking at the data I only see a city that is underfunded.

Juneau’s primary economic limitation — a chronic lack of sufficient housing — is also its oldest economic challenge. In 1895 Miner Bruce...