Red8wop wrote: "When you tax my income to pay for your dividend, your dividend becomes welfare and I will lobby to eliminate it completely"

That does not make any sense.   The tax and the dividend are different things, apples and oranges.  The tax is not being used to subsidize the Permanent Fund.  Actually now that the state is planning on dipping into the Permanent Fund it is the other way around - as in oil company credits, aka corporate welfare.