I appreciate your perspective.  I have been here to see the first PFD check and will be here to see the last.   I fear we passed the point of a sustainable budget from oil revenues  when Roger Cremo's idea was rejected and our elected officials  (like the five mentioned) saw much more political benefit in handing out the earnings directly to the citizens instead of investing those earnings to generate funds necessary to sustain essential government services.  So until the pressure to use the Permanent Fund Earnings to directly fund government becomes unavoidable (and the PFD ends) only some of us will be required to pay the taxes in order to pay every Alaskan this dividend.