text: has you checked the site were alaska pays and does not tax their residents? www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent  there should be oilrent on the end this shows alaskans are getting paid and not taxed! if alaska can, kuwait can, dubia can; then our lieing, cheating, stealing, murdering, back stabbing, cork screwing, dirty dealing, flim flam men pollitions had better get their a$$ and do something. if things keep going the way they are they will find themselves in the unemployment line! the feds have more resources than alaska and all the other states have more to! oil is just a commodity any and all other commodities can be used in this very same manner. we're getting screwed! the pollitions are lol all the way to the bank! you don't say where you're from so i'm not sure how you are getting screwed. alaska is part of the united states of america. almost anyone who wants to can live here. they don't pay us to live here, we do it because there are so many un-educated ranters and ravers in the other 49 states that we enjoy the distance between us and them. if you are truly interested in how & why the pfd was created and how it works. come on up, spend a couple of winters, freeze your butt off.then you can laugh at some of the things people out there believe.  maybe next time we can talk about the bridges to nowhere