What planet do you live on?  Check the receipt on the last set of tires you purchased...or plane ticket = 7.5% tax on a domestic ticket and a $3 tax for each segment of a flight.  There is a federal gas tax = roughly 15%.  Hunting and fishing licenses...and lottery permits provide substantial sums for ak.gov and feds take 10% of the sales price on sport-fishing equipment, archers pay 40 cents tax per arrows..quivers 11%!...firearm, you'll pay 11% of the sales price in federal tax on the gun as well as any ammunition. Handguns are taxed at 10% of the sales price.  Alaska taxes insurance companies on premiums...who do you think pays that?  

Plenty of taxes hidden in a myriad of other items as well.  .GOV is counting on your ignorance of such "ridiculous statements".