text: Exactly right. These small communities and many others, in Alaska, have a sales tax that already taxes it's visitors to offset taxing its reidents. Now these small cities, bush hamlets and people who chose to live off the grid want the Anchorage and Fairbanks to subsidize their chosen life style through an income tax. Many of these bush hamlets and off grip places, have NO viable economy. The only thing that keeps the doors in these places are tons State $$.