"So the Dems want an income tax in order to pay the Dividend?"

Government is already required to pay the dividend and the dividend is being slashed as well, "using Permanent Fund investment revenue and an individual income tax." How do you come to the conclusion that this income tax proposal saves something that it slashes? I cannot even fathom how you can rationally attribute the proposal to one party when the other party suggested something similar last year without the income tax.