Nations that rely on oil revenues to pay for government usually are backward, authoritarian leaning corrupt phenomenalities opposed to reason and equal protection of the law. So many Alaskan sycophants of big oil seek to be the most flattering minions of those globalists. They have no interest in the historical facts that government must be paid for by the people and users if democracy is to exist meaningfully. An income tax is part of the equation of opportunity. It is a kind of user tax inclusive of those that simply visit the state, extract income and leave paying nothing.
The usual practice for a kleptocracy is to plunder whatever it can (oil, Permanent Fund etc.) while it can before leaving the state finance and diversification plans in ruins when the money runs out. Then of course they prefer selling government to the highest bidder.
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