As soon as I see the opponents to the income tax push for the elimination of the oil tax credits and other dodges, and increasing the tax/royalty rate for extracting our oil, I'll believe they're serious about solving the issue.

I can go along with further state reductions, but I want to see a commitment to increasing oil revenue.  Oil is nonrenewable.  Someday it will run out, or the world energy market will change and the demand will go away.  We need to bank as much revenue as we can before that happens.  Letting the oil companies milk us like a cash cow does not serve our purposes.  They couldn't care less about us.  They just want to maximize profits in any way possible.  We need to behave the same way.