I love it, you call it enriched.
The PFD doesn't even pay half my house payment. :roll:
The reason the Democrats want to take the PFD is because the fact they don't have enough money to operate. Oil revenus don't cover any of the states functions. That is why they are 400 million in debt, and wants the constitutional right, which is the PFD, to pay for it, and they can't touch it. Yet.
ANWR doesn't necessarly mean oil revenues, they aren't even 100% sure there is enough oil there to make any revenues from. They drill in parts of ANWR every day right now. Just not to the extent they want to, and it's a few select corporations. It's not free regin.
I don't disagree with much that you said, however, there are things you really have no idea about. The politics involved in the PFD are very extensive right now. They are cutting education, state jobs, etc.. etc.. because the public won't allow them to touch that money, to pay the debt. The state legis. also won't vote in a sales or income tax. Personally, take the divdend, the 1200 dollars a year isn't half of what I'd pay in income and sales tax every year.
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