Currently,  the State has a surplus of labor.  Why?   There is not enough taxpayer funds to pay the salaries and benefits cost of labor.  There's plenty of people ready and willing to labor.  No money to pay them.  The labor may or may not be essential,  but there is no money to pay.  In other words,  capital must come first.  In Alaska,  the oil companies pay their bills and they pay the State's bills.  Since oil is in over supply and under demand it no longer can provide a profit to be taxed to pay the costs of State Labor or private sector labor.   You should start praying for capital to pay for all the labor that can't find enough capitalists to invest or create profits to be taxed. Thus,  unemployment and under employment is the new norm. Although you advocate for the residents and earners of Alaska to be taxed and have their dividend checks capped to pay State  labor costs,  that is not capital or investment.  That is confiscation and redistribution.