I would say a fair and realistic point of view, completely outside the bickering and clamoring for "My dividend and MY wallet". Buried in this piece is the fact that our Legislature has had two full session plus and years to act like adults and plan, soften the blow, reshape, retool. Instead, we have had and continue to have elected officials who want to keep lying to people about reality, and some want desperately to believe them. We can cut our way out of this, we can just restructure the permanent fund...Think, think people how long do you think we will have a permanent fund with this group? They will piss it away and spend it not on things we need like schools and Troopers, but the Susitna Dam, and road to Juneau; they will keep writing checks to Conoco and BP at a loss. If we want a future we must, have a balance of things which must include a tax. Austerity alone only crashes an economy there are many examples of this.