The proposed income tax is punitively unfair. Estimates are that only 48% of Alaskans would be required to pay.  Meanwhile the state will operate as it did when oil was $120/barrel with a ridiculously high number of state employees and useless programs.  A reasonable precursor to and new tax is prudent spending, but that seems politically impossible. A fair tax would be a sales tax because everybody pays something.  

By virtue of the PFD Alaska is a socialist welfare state.  The PFD encourages state dependent behavior. It erodes work ethic.  It distorts family values.  We have entire villages with no economic basis other than the PFD and other state funding. They pay no taxes now and will be exempt from the proposed income tax.  These villages make no economic contribution to the state. And you have the temerity to claim we are not a socialist welfare state?