Is everybody forgetting the other entities that are ripping off the state like gold mining, Seattle fisheries, tourism, logging, chain stores, out of state businesses like Entstar, SBS and the list is as long as your arm. Now we're looking at an income tax or sales tax on Alaskans to keep the money export business strong. Ted Stevens is gone so what else brings money into the state, oil, but what if there is no more oil money, shouldn't the state be looking into just what assets it is throwing away. Sure the outside businesses are saying we are giving you jobs but so does any business and the profits go out of state and when the people that have these jobs buy anything it too will go out of state. Just like a person or town or city or state or country you must have income to exist. Soon people will be selling assets if there are buyers just to stay solvent and many will leave because Alaskans fiddled while the resource bank was being robbed