How about living in a state with no income tax? (Subject to change) How about those roads you drive on? How about schools for your children? How about hospitals, and cancer treatment facilities? How about income for every entrepreneur and employee in the state? If you don't think oil money has contributed either directly, or through the wages it pays its employees and contractors, you just keep on fishing and chop some extra wood while you're at it. Things are going to get tough real soon without new discoveries.