The NS Borough has taxed my home, yet pays us each $40,000 per year in roads, schools, pools and subsidized utilities. Math simple: $400 million divided by 10,000 residents. If the state charged sales and income taxes the burden falls onto one class of folks: working stiffs.
Public Assistance isn't taxable. Food stamps (quest cards) are exempt from sales taxes and housing, medical and cash assistance isn't taxable as income. Zero welfare monies are ever clawed back. This is long overdue.
The folks that are hit the most by a Permanent Fund raid are the folks most reliant upon State of Alaska's generous public assistance programs. Don't you see? Raiding the Permanent Fund is the only way we can get financial help from the poor.
All other taxes fall on OUR shoulders. The working stiffs that read newspapers, vote every election and read my moronic drivel here in the peanut gallery of ADN's comments section. 
It's okay to covet the rich, but in Alaska, sadly, I'm starting to covet the poor.