The sooner the Left and the Right agree to hold hands, jump off the cliff together, (and hopefully land safely) in cold deep water, the better. By that I mean that this is the last year for the Dividend. Followed by a low rate income tax in 2018 of approximately 5% of your federal income tax. The lower income 50% of all AK residents  will pay zero State income tax. The savings of $0.7-1.4 billion/yr could pay for a lot of actual legitimate public purposes.