"Those living in parts of the state that have a lifestyle built around not having or keeping a job will keep getting their PFD and not have to pay any income tax." Those parts of the state also produce the majority of the oil that has paid for everything. Maybe Alaska should just charge a fair rate to the oil companies for extracting the resources that belong to the citizens of Alaska. Instead we had the previous Republican Dominated Legislature build a budget on $100 a barrel oil, and give incentives to oil companies to take us to the cleaners. It was like watching a used car salesman speech, we lose money on every deal, but we make up for it by screwing the other guy. Can you guess who the other guy is in this scenario?