"I have no intention to implement a statewide tax or paying for state government by reducing Permanent Fund dividend checks. If we properly develop our natural resources and put in place a sustainable budget that should not be necessary."
-Gov. Candidate Bill Walker per ADN
Because if he had said, "yes, we need to use PFD money to fund state government", he would have never gotten elected. He basically lied to get elected. He is now considering the Juneau road to nowhere because people are resigned to the PFD going away. I always thought there would be a day of reckoning, but I never thought it would be the citizens of Alaska having there ownership in the oil wealth taken. The bureaucracy of Alaska state government is very powerful and requires a ton of money. I ask why? The state has less than 1 million people. The economy is so small. Why are there so many divisions of state government with Commissioners and directors. 24,000+ budgeted positions and growing! What do these people do?