If what I read on this thread were true. it would be preferable for Alaska to ban cruise ships.
No need for pollution monitors
No more port infrastructure improvements
No more southeast cities swamped by tourists
No more cruise industry bogus PR campaigns
No need for trail improvements, scenic ovelooks, etc.
Three years from now you will have to increase the tax because there were more people ( more revenue) or less revenue (less people) than anticipated.
Get Real; if you want to rip people off just do it. This is no different than any other tax hike: less than 10% of the revenues collected will go toward the projects for which the revenue was intended. We should all lobby Ted Stevens to drop the "bridge to nowhere" tax that he manged to have imposed on all US citizens and just up the cruise ship ante to $100 per person At least foreign visitors will be helping to fund it (instead of lending us the money used to fund it).