text: Jim, again you fail miserably at reading comprehension. This is cut from the very site that you wave as some sort of magic wand:
  
  Third, severance taxes also pose another problem in that they are generally considered by economist to be fully passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices. As a result, much of the severance tax burden is actually “exported” to the other 49 states. The tax burden analysis published by the Tax Foundation adjusts for this impact and ranks Alaska as the lowest in the country with a tax burden of 7 percent. - See more at: http://www.keypolicydata.com/blog-archives/2015/01/severance-taxes-fuel-alaskas-highest-nation-tax-burden-2013/#sthash.As1HM6EG.dpuf