You lost me when you blithely toss  out nonsense "tax heavily" verbiage to continue to remain an Alaskan State government freeloader. The proposed income tax works out to about 1.5% of federally taxable income. Less than we paid before oil arrived and the PFD joined it. Cutting government is only one leg of the State public economics stool, and NO leg of the stool should be willy-nilly cut or increased without examining long-term impacts, and strategies to be put in place for the other legs of the stool.... - What are you running for?  This is a red-meat political piece, pure and simple. Not helpful at all for a policy debate.