Steve Haycox, I have enjoyed your public writings over the years. This article is interesting history, but you appear to have an agenda pushing a state income tax. Maybe your history lesson should have included the evolution of the federal income tax and the special interest lobbying that has made the 80 thousand pages of tax law so misunderstood corrupt and unfair. As a result of this crazyness many many smart capable citizens are spending lives preparing taxes. Basically producing nothing of value to our society. And you think Alaska should adopt this mess as our state tax?