While no single proposition so far, including dropping all the oil subsidies, will close the gap, it is, indeed, absurd to spend the capital required to administer both the PFD and an income tax to give and then take back money to/from the citizens. It would make much more sense to use, what we the people want used, from the PF to fund government and if there's anything left, distribute that. To really sweeten the pot, how about we bring back the idea from a couple of decades ago that would cash out half the PF in large dividends to the citizenry and then stop the dividend altogether. For the newbies, it was put to referendum and narrowly failed. It might do better today when the entire PF is at stake.