Thomas Crowley - There's another side to that. Apparently you have a large family and a low income (receive a lot of government or Native Corporation benefits, do you?), but for my family, that income tax will be $500 more per year than what we would receive from the PFD. So, if I'm doing a cost benefit analysis for my middle class family that brings home less than $50,000 a year, I'm willing to give up the PFD to not have to pay an income tax out of every paycheck. See, I can do math and I can figure out that means something has to give. Since home heating fuel and food are not options we can decide to do without, that means savings, retirement or contributing to our church suffers. And for what? So the government can waste more money on services that by and large have proven to be ineffective? With the exception of the roads, I can't think of many government services my family benefits from that we're not already paying a heavy tax to support. Income tax would just on top of that.