Considering the cost of living and energy in Alaska it's insulting to say Alaskans have no skin in the game. They've been paying hidden taxes for years when the state dumps hundreds of millions into projects and energy subsidies that only raise the cost of living. 

Alaskan consumers have provided for billions of dollars in profits to monopolistic enterprises. 

This is the same rhetoric, just a different version, that was used to justify SB21. The oil companies are the "makers" and the working class of Alaska are the "takers".

What's often left out is that the people of Alaska OWN THE OIL and what it really has is a principal-agent problem. The legislators they sent to manage the public wealth quite literally gave it away.