text: MS,  Your statement is not logical.  First you claim that only a few hard working Alaskans will have to pay an income tax.  Now you state that a majority of Alaskans do not want to be taxed, and then you claim the D's want to take the $ and give it to "big interests'.  Didn't the Senate want to quadruple the payments this session to the oil and gas "welfare credit" industry?   
  
  Now I agree that most people do not want  to make any contribution such as a state
  income tax, while continuing to receive a state dividend.  They do not want to pay taxes on a home, but would rather receive free services.  
  
  However, if an income tax does pass, then only Alaskan residents would receive a dividend, while non-residents working in Alaska would pay the income tax and receive no dividend from the state. I think you are off base, even for your base.