There are 70,000 Alaskans who earn over $100,000 a year.   I think it`s fair to ask them and the rest of us on lesser incomes as well, to pay a fair progressive share of taxes to get this state on a steady and predictable fiscal path and away from nebulous dependence on the price of oil to plan our budgeting.  People will leave people will stay and new people will come.  Every five years 80% of the population rotates in and out of the state I once heard.  The glut of fracked oil will mitigate any upward pressure on oil prices at these levels for many years (barring general war in the sandbox).  Spreading the tax base away from oil is vital to this state in the current fiscal reality.  It`s time we picked up the slack and helped our state just like almost every single state in the Union.  Development of our infrastructure will continue but far slower and with increased risk of engineering failure (witness Anchorage City Dock..), unless we act responsibly. Just my old two cents.