Mr. Josephson doesn't mention how much money it will take to create the bureaucracy that this income tax will generate. Every state that got an income tax, got a large bureaucracy to support and collect the tax. How much larger will our state government get due to this tax?? Just in case if the oil prices started to climb like crazy, is there a system to dismantled the income tax and destroy this bureaucracy?  To be fair, if we must have taxes, I preferred a flat tax if we were to have an income tax. Everyone pays, no one quits as they say in that one movie. From the rich to the very poor pays. That should pulled in the overzealous spenders, eh?  Or a state wide sales tax fixed at a rate. All taxation rates should be fixed and they can only be alter with the approval of the voters only. To blindly go into a taxation system and repeating the errors of other states, is a hasty mistake.