Tax and spend policy of any party, bodes ill for the state of Alaska. Simple fact I was once told was that we don't have the population to support an income tax as the way House planned it, as our main source of revenue and our state wide structures is based on oil money, not people money. If there is to be an income tax, it must be a flat tax where everyone, from the poor to the rich, pay their fair share and no one is exempt. Also, to create a taxation system, you must first build a bureaucracy to support it. It literally defeat the purpose of a tax if it is used to create the bureaucracy to collect it, state's version of the IRS, right? Maybe it is the way for the House to create more jobs?? Personally, I would prefer a sales tax if we must have such a thing. Apply it from Wrangell to Barrow at the same rate. Michael, bad solution is just as bad as no solution at all. And Michael, we are actually living in the era of good and friendly feeling of American politics!!!