The privileged few have hogged all the good paying jobs. If you don't have an "in" with a prospective employer, or you don't have some "good-old-boy" giving you a reference, you don't get the good job.
These people resisting a State income tax are simply protecting their high-cast position in life, at the expense of the low-casts. They seem entitled to their place in life.
They say that the poor should just get a good job, and quit whining. Well, none of them seem willing to give up their good-paying job to anyone stuck working at Walmart or McDonalds.
There are college graduates working for minimum wage in Alaska, because they don't have a "sponsor" into a good job.
There's only so many good paying jobs, where there would be any tax liability. Those jobs afford a really nice home, two cars, and etc. The rest pay over half of their income to slum lords.
The "no income tax" crowd is living off the fat of the land. Someday they may find themselves begging God for a single drop of water.