[Senator Clay Davis]

Absolutely no way should any tax go into the Heritage Fund. Taxes should only be used to pay for expenditures in a general budget. Resource revenue above and beyond what is needed should 100% go into the Fund, but saying a tax should go directly into the Fund won't work. If you put tax money into the fund, you're just shifting your revenue burden onto the resource side, and considering we're facing some economic challenges because of over reliance on resource revenue, we really don't need to be repeating the same mistake.