Alaska has no state sales or income tax. There are already quite a number of taxes on specific things...tobacco, tires, booze, etc.
PFD is the Permanent Fund Dividend, a dividend which is paid on a huge oil royalty savings account which was started when the state was flush with oil and revenue. (We still have plenty of oil, but DC would prefer that we leave it in the ground so our volumes being sold are low right along with the price.)
