Good to see RR posting again as Kathleen.  The GOP hypocrites are not opposed to increasing taxes, ie. their proposal of a State wide sales tax.  The hypocrites just want to be sure the taxes they propose hurt the lower income working people more than they hurt themselves.  This ain't rocket science, a sales tax hurts families more than high paid CEO's.  Families buy more food, more clothes and more things that are taxed as a percent of their income than a CEO.  A sales tax will have no impact on our out of state oil patch workers who benefit having a job here in Alaska but take their income to OK or TX.  The GOP hypocrites want to eat up the Permanent Fund principal before they will relent because the PFD benefits the poor and families more than it benefits CEO's or workers from out of state.  Cutting the PFD will deepen the AK recession, because CEO's don't spend, and the poor and families actually spend their PFD money here.  When will Alaskan's wise up to the con game.