text: "Alaska's needs require us to include a broad based tax - as does every other state..."
  
  You know what every other state doesn't have?  A government handout each year.  This seems much more out of the ordinary than not having a broad based tax.  
  
  Who will leave the state if an income tax is enacted?  The hard working professionals who have better opportunities elsewhere, and who keep the Alaska economy firing.  
  
  Who will leave if the permanent fund dividend goes away?  People like Papa Pilgrim who moved his family of like 15 up here and leveraged his future dividend checks into an inholding inside Wrangell St Elias park and tortured the locals.
  
  No taxes until dividend is gone.