text: If I remember right Longs Drugs ,SBS and Gary Kings kept money in the state, the others send the profits out immediately and this money was replaced by oil money and Federal money so now that money is gone and we have a deficit budget and are looking at an income tax or sales tax to pay the state's debt. When you think of the dollars the slipped through Alaska's hands and out of state and still are isn't it embarrassing to have been part of the squandering.
  Billions of barrels of oil, tons of gold, millions of pounds of fish, forests of trees,
  Anchorage turned into a junk selling welfare city and we need to support this with an income tax and let the profiting companies off the hook, God what stupid people we are.