I work for a company in Anchorage that employs 30 people, a big incentive of why I and 6 of my colleagues moved to AK 3 years ago was because there is no state income tax. If there is going to be a state income tax people will leave the state and even worse less people will move up here, it's that simple. Maybe the bigger problem is that AK has more government employees (by far) than any other state, google it. They all get pensions too, so we have to make sure and pay that tax so we can keep paying something nobody else gets anymore. AK is the highest spending state per capita in the US, spending an average of $18k per resident annually, that's insane! What does the state spend that on!? But hey, keep new businesses like Uber out, get rid of incentives to have movie companies not come and film in AK, go back on the oil tax credits AK residents voted in just 2 years ago, and of course keep hiring government employees, that will fix it...so dumb. Do a sales tax or get rid of PFD.