I don't know if these numbnuts get it or not, but the size of the dividend check isn't the issue. 

It's the fact that the State is kicking 3/4 of a billion dollars (soon to be over a billion) out of the state treasury every year and sending the checks to Houston and London as a corporate welfare program. And, they get to keep and sell the resource they are removing as well.

Hell, take the whole dividend away. I don't care. But stop removing these dollars from the Alaskan economy so BP, Conoco Phillips and ExxonMobil shareholders can have healthy dividends and corporate executives can have million dollar bonuses.

And don't ask me to fund this program with income or sales tax dollars as well.