While I agree with your philosophy, if we are to have a tax, it should be a progressive sales tax. As much as I hate the idea of any tax, I recognize that a sales tax will hit the poor a lot harder than an income tax will hit the wealthy. However, with a sales tax, it should NOT be calculated into the advertised product price; it should be added on at the register. In this way, people will actually SEE how much their precious "government services" are costing them every single day of their lives. If we have an income tax, we should not do payroll withholding. We should make every single Alaskan write a personal check to Juneau once per year, so that they are reminded how much their precious "government services" are costing them. Hopefully, after a few years of this, people will finally start to see the light and force the government to heel.