Goebbels, that master of deception, also said "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." 
Median income simply means that $70k per year is the middle of a very wide range of  possible incomes in Alaska.. Many Alaskans work at minimum wage jobs,  often two or three, just to pay rent and utilities; forget savings for a home, much less unconstitutional state income taxes. That's nothing but double and triple taxation on direct income; the hardest hit are those least able to pay.   
If people don't realize it by now, they're not reading enough: Most major corporations pay NEGATIVE taxes. Impossible? Not any more! Pay a few bucks in, get $88 mil back in loans/grants/contracts, etc! Ask GCI how! Ask about Xerox costs, in $$ and lives lost, people maimed. We're being fed some whoppers, folks.  We can balance the budget; it'll take guts, intelligence and integrity. Do we have leaders or are too many just chowhounds at a gravy train?