Thanks for the very civil comment. My point was that the PFD is like finding money along the road. People generally see it as something that they did not have to earn and which therefore can be used to buy snow machines, new fishing gear, trips to Hawaii, trips to Anchorage or a case of R&R from the local bootlegger. Obviously there are people who use it to educate their kids or save it for a down payment on a new girlfriend, but the last study that I saw, indicated that most of the cash was used for recreational or leisure-time purposes. You are absolutely right about the legislature. The fact that every single lawmaker in Juneau now has three staffers each of whom earns over $100 K per year is ridiculous yet, those knuckle heads think it's better to institute a very large income tax than to cut spending or reduce the PFD.