In reality you're paying the tax with your PFD. That and every time you fill up at the gas station you're giving money back to the oil companies. There's is a win win situation for them. A sales tax might not be as bad and force some savings especially when you see how many people are buying junk they don't need and have no savings and expect the government to provide. A sales tax wouldn't hit the older folks so bad as they don't need so much and most have their homes paid for. It'd hard to figure out why the big businesses like the chains won't be hit also with tax as why should the working guy have to foot the bills while the big companies still go on sending big profits out of state and have been bilking the state for years. The state really needs to keep money in the state rather than feed the coffers in the lower 48. We've lost Billions in gold, fish, chain store profits, oil profits, tourism, timber, gas and on and on due to negligence of the people and the legislature, Wake up.