This will be the most absurd set of exemption from a tax ever conceived.   Only taxing wages and no other income source is tell you to find something to earn income that does not involve a tradition wage earning job.  You notice there is no information given on how much annual income would be excluded from taxation in all of Alaska.  At the risk of being called anti-native I'll consider those big years when a native corporation pay out big dividends that would be tax free. Dividends that have exceeded $ 50,000 per share holder in rare instances.  It would appear that overall state wide these exclusions could exceed the amount of wages that would be taxed.