text: Cost to the State of Alaska for people who must appease TSA or a military base to get their own passports:  $0.  
  Cost to the State of Alaska to implement REAL ID so those same people can appease TSA and military: $2 million+. 
  
  Why are we even discussing this waste of money while supposedly having a fiscal crisis?  If you want to or have to bow to the threats of the federal government for your job or your personal travel needs, get a passport, rather than asking the State of Alaska to spend millions, risk the privacy of others, inconvenience especially the elderly and others who cannot produce the required original documents for REAL ID, and give up all control over future changes/costs of state licenses/IDs by giving up its own regulatory power over state ID cards.  Let's call this what it is, a national ID card, and let's use the existing, available federal passport to satisfy that demand, rather than forcing states to pay for a national ID.