K-12 education is the single biggest line item in the State budget. The University budget is the 4th biggest line item. 50% of the Anchorage City Budget and thus your property tax bill is K-12 education. Neglect? Really? Misuse of funds more likely. Gratuitous potshot at Republicans while lionizing Knowles: Priceless!

Also, the notion that the Dividend raises 1/4 of poverty persons out of poverty is a red herring. If this is a laudable goal then they need to be helped through existing social welfare programs instead of the dividend program.

In the future, there will be Wohlforth column writing machine to write his opinions. The Wohlforth Machine and other similar machines will send us all a check to subsist on while the machines do all the work. Then we will all be equal.