There should have always been an Alaska income tax and find ways to write it off if you are a resident. It would maybe have also kept people more in tune with the way taxes were spent. When you think about 40 years of high paying jobs and the taxes that were never paid it adds up to a lot of change. That money alone would pay for the state workers and glass buildings. Alaska has taken it in the back country for years and everyone in the legislature for 40 years has known it.