"Fourth-lowest state income tax" comes with qualifiers... excludes the other seven states without an income tax. Also calculated on the average per taxpayer... so does not address the consequences of requiring high income earners to pay a rate higher than all but nine states (some will move). And how about those Anchorage property taxes at ~1.4% of value... puts us at around 13th highest (average... since states don't collect ad val). We must continue to cut spending, we have no choice... we can't afford it with 50$ oil and a PF that will no longer be inflation protected. And don't forget the under-funded state retirements where we come in at the fifth highest (only 55% funded, 27B$ underfunded) equating to about 28k$ per Alaskan.