[IM2MAD]

“Alaskans have the lowest tax burden of any state in the country, paying just 6.3%...

According to the Tax Foundation, “Before the Trans-Alaska pipeline was finished in 1977, taxpayers in Alaska bore the second-highest tax burden in the country. By 1980, with oil tax revenue pouring in, Alaska repealed its personal income tax and started sending out checks instead. The tax burden plummeted, and now Alaskans are the least taxed.” The state also levies no personal income tax or sales tax.”

[normy]

If Texas taxed the oil companies operating in Texas and sent checks out to the public, they would be contesting the top spot, but windfall taxes on Oil and gas companies is a Democrat thing. Also being the 2nd most populous state, the checks would be rather small. You would also have to factor in that there is very little public land in Texas either federal or state. It's almost all private.

[Eska]

Ya want to really turn green? We live rural in Ak, no property taxes either. No law enforcement, nobody hiding in the weeds collecting revenue or giving a reason to pass more laws & ordinances & regulations. No organized local govt is a very good thing, and locals want it to stay that way.

Something else, before statehood vote, Alaskans wanted to stay like Peurto Rico or Philapines. They realized Alaska didn’t have the money to run govt and they would be taxed to death. Fed brught in 15,000 military changed requirements and threw the election. No joke, that’s what really went down.