Income Tax in Alaska? What would Sarah do?

[edhopper]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/us/as-oil-money-melts-alaska-mulls-first-income-tax-in-35-years.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

With oil prices down along with oil production, the state is facing an Alaska-size shortfall: Two-thirds of the revenue needed to cover this year’s $5.2 billion state budget cannot be collected.

Many Alaskans are not old enough to recall times this bad. This is the nation’s least-taxed state, where oil royalties and energy taxes once paid for 90 percent of state functions. Oil money was so plentiful that residents received annual dividend checks from a state savings fund that could total more than $8,000 for a family of four — arriving each autumn, as predictable as the first snowfall.

[TexasProgresive]

1. NOOOOOOO! she might move to Texas.

Ain't we gotta enough grief?

[pinboy3niner]

2. No worries

She'd get halfway there and quit.

[TexasProgresive]

3. HO! HO! HO! Thanks, Santa for the present.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I did see that her Arizona mansion is on the market

and rumor is that she absolutely doesn't want to live in Alaska anymore, which does my heart good.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Maybe she would buy Dimson's Crawford pig farm.

That reminds me I always though it ironic that Dimdad's library was build on the site of the former swine center at TAMU and Dimson bought a former pig farm for his play Reaganese ranch.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I didn't know that,

but it seems appropriate somehow.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. We had income tax when I first moved up here

and it wasn't all that bad. In fact, Governor Hammond himself (the "father of the Permanent Fund&quot once said that the biggest mistake he ever made was discontinuing the income tax. Now latecomers to the state, those who have arrived in the last 35 years, have become spoiled. I for one would be happy to see the demise of our oily overlords and a return to Alaska self-sufficiency. Maybe we could go back to being a Democratic state then, as we were when statehood was first granted.

[edhopper]

8. good post nt/