I just looked it up. Apparently each and every Alaskan gets $1540 every year. I agree that I don't think that we should tax our tourists more than we tax ourselves. a perfect example is here in Dallas we tax the people to stay at our hotel substantially more in order to pay for the American Airlines Arena, substantially more than we tax people who live in the town. Of course that being said my property taxes far far exceed what you would pay an San Francisco for for a house five times as much. But we have no income tax on us.

I would have to say that on the whole I'm against all new taxation I think the government should be able to do just fine on the monies that it has. The amount of bureaucracy and wasting of money is amazing and I don't think that we should pay more money just for that.