Dermot's next column should be: "Is the Dividend Done? It Appears So."
"Faced with a skeptical public about an income tax, many Representatives in the House are acknowledging privately the uncomfortable truth that the Dividend is no longer a useful practice of a government that is over $3 billion in arrears annually......Truth be told the revered Permanent Fund is essentially 25% owned by State Employee pensions. Alaskans would pay over $5000 per man, woman, and child if the citizens were on the hook for the annual cost of their State government...."