Assemblyman Ron Bernier of the Mat-Su Borough Assembly was in favor of Senate Bill 92 and presented a resolution for the Assembly to support it earlier this month.
SB 92, the Yundt Tax, was proposed by Sen. Rob Yundt of Wasilla and was designed to tax just one company — Hilcorp, which does business in Alaska, on the North Slope and in Cook Inlet.
But over the past few days Bernier has changed his mind. In a statement to Must Read Alaska, he wrote:…