Every Alaskan individual should give up their PFD to help pay for state services we all enjoy, nothing can be fairer.  Unless we want to cut cut the state budget in half we need to use about 4% of the balance of the Permanent Fund each year to fund state services.  If the elimination of the PFD, the use of Permanent Fund earnings and spending cuts to get state spending to a reasonable level in not enough we should start thinking about a state sales tax.