Got a bad taste in my mouth with this condescending piece of flotsam. If the dividend were based on a family's overall needs, over half this state would not qualify. These also seem to be the people all willing and wanting an income tax. But, that would make the PFD a "welfare hand-out", right? Then why are we paying the richest corporations on Earth a dividend? Do they really need the money? (Or, are we being blackmailed?) How can the poorest among us get it thru the entitled brains of the legislature that the dividend is needed, not just wanted. It has become part of people's yearly budget. Perhaps dropping the "permanent" part of the dividend's name would change people's conception...in a few generations.