Dermot, you too fall into the "cutting the dividend" mumbo jumbo instead of calling it what it really is, which is a tax.

A 50+ percent tax on every child, woman and man who receive a dividend.  Some Alaskans do not receive any dividend, even if they do not leave the state.  Some "Alaskans" receive dividends when they spend half the year elsewhere.  Some "Alaskans" spend the entire year elsewhere.

Let's not call it a reduced dividend either. Call it a tax.  A very specific tax.  The same tax on Bob Gillam's household as the poorest household in Alaska.