Albertson, Suggest you do some research before making inaccurate assertions about non-resident workers. 78.7% of all employment in Alaska is held by Alaskans and they receive 84% of all wages paid. The 21.3% of jobs held by non-residents are unavailable to residents because of skill and other deficiencies. Hardly the lopsided non-resident employment you portray. (http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/reshire/nonres.pdf).  Your diatribes against the oil producers is curious because just about everything this state has accomplished, built or operated was made possible by oil production or federal government largesse. Those looking for new oil taxes to solve our fiscal dilemma are having a fool’s dream. Yesterday oil was $47/barrel and it’s not going higher anytime soon. Alaska was the leading oil producing state, but now five other states produce more and cheaper oil. We are in a recession and the notion that an income tax on a shrinking employment base will solve the problem is ludicrous.