"Don't repeal it [State Income tax] or you'll see state spending soar. A major restraint on government growth and spending will be lost. Once repealed, we'll never get it back until we've raided all other revenue sources, and/or traumatically cut even crucial state programs.--With repeal that benefit would not only go mostly to those who least needed it but to nearly one quarter of Alaska's work force who are non-residents.--Since absolute equity was a necessary objective, however, I preferred to let each Alaskan--not the politicians ---decide how he or she should spend some of the resource wealth each owned. Persons moving out of Alaska would relinquish their "stockholder" shares." J. Hammond