It is so basic, the state of Alaska has NO business taking the dividend from any one, when they are giving away the same amount to large corpparations and have pork projects on the books. How anyone can argue that is okay is beyond me. Clem Tillon spelled it our very clearly in his op-ed piece. It is like a bad parent taking the trust fund of a child pissing it away and then giving them an allowance of their own money. People it is a tax but a way unfair one.