It's time to end the Permanent Fund dividend check in Alaska

By Dan Fagan
Publisher
The Alaska Standard

The idea of paying every man, woman, and child a dividend check each year from the average earnings of the Alaska Permanent Fund is the possibly one of the worst public policies since the inception of this country’s great republic.

(And yes smart-ass, I do deposit my check every year. If you can’t get past the idea of me arguing against a policy while at the same time benefitting from it then you better stop reading now.)

Now ultra left wing pandering Democrats Hollis French and Harry Crawford want to enshrine this wealth redistribution program in the Alaska constitution. Read more