Also with all due respect as I know you are an honorable person, and yet I always disagree with ya on this, ha ha. Bottomline, all our politicals from governors on down have been bought and paid for by the oil industry; dem & repub alike. Palin is the only one that bucked the time honored tradition of once elected you do everything the oil industry asked of you. Always been that way up here too with the exception of Palin.
The tax issue is about more than just Sarah Palin. The immense reliance on the oil industry to provide the state funding sets them up for corruption.
Here is an example that started long before Sarah Palin and she did not change it in any way:
Why should the oil/gas industry pay state property tax but no other industry should?
I understand and strongly agree with royalty payments. I understand and agree with corporation income tax. I don't understand singling out a single industry to pay taxes on profits or property.