This is the biggest smoke screen to date.

    The tax regime DOES  NOT  influence production, lower costs, easier access to light sweet crude by fracking that began in 2013 . I would be guessing to believe it was a part of the " Secret Agreement " that our Republican Legislature Created with the oil industry. The one that is protected by a " Non-disclosure Agreement " forbidding our Representatives from disclosing the terms of an agreement they entered into on OUR behalf.

   These are the people that want to get their hands on the PFD , and it will not benefit the state one bit. It will, however, make some wealthy people much more money. It will just be from taxation , and a raid on the PFD.

    I never hear mention of potential tax revenue from the Cannabis Industry. The amount of profit will be TREMENDOUS once the Federal Government takes it off of schedule 1 , and research can begin in earnest. There is a future past the oil, believe it or not.