With oil at $100 per barrel. It's under $50 today. Do you think you could pay increased taxes while, at the same time, taking a 50% cut in pay? I'm not arguing for a tax free oil industry, I'm arguing against killing the goose. Oil industry jobs are good jobs that pay a living wage on which a person can raise a family and own a home. We're not talking about Wal-Mart and McDonald's where most employees are dependent on the state for food stamps. People like you want to tax and tax until companies like Conoco, BP, and their contractors are forced to layoff thousands of Alaskans (and yes outsiders, too-that's another issue for another day). Every job in Alaska is directly dependent on money that oil industry employees spend in-state. Don't drive those jobs off with liberal chants of "death to the rich."