Why should the PFD be even considered? 
The state government needs to be accountable and should just start cutting huge departments completely. Yes jobs will be lost. If your good in your field then you can find a job in a cubicle elsewhere.
The numbers don't add up for years the Alaska budget has been in the multi billion dollar range in a state with a lot less than a million people so where's the money going when Alaska's richest person is worth less than 500 million.
Time for the government to shrink we can not keep this up.