Maureen Doe, PFD brings out the same arguments for the low income in this state, they waste it on luxury items, I am just surprised that since this is Alaska that here is no mention the "poor" spending free "government" hand outs on a meal of King Crab. I would be happy to explain to you how this "windfall" is a big boom to the entire of the state since "discretionary" spending is "extra" money that a lot of it goes directly back into the communities to support them but I don't have a lot of room to do that here. Just will say that shortly before Jay Hammond passed on I called him ( I was in Juneau when he was governor) and I mentioned my first Alaska grandchild was just born and he launched into an amazing lecture on why the PFD was created and by who ( he took no credit) and what was the purpose and why it should be protected for future generations and no doubt state leaders in the future can not stand the thought of the fund "just" sitting there and  will try to take it away.