This author doesn't even grasp what the PFD is. He seems to think it is just a cash assistance program and not a sovereign wealth fund (you know that whole "our resources" thing). And so he easily equates his version of what the PFD is with other government assistance programs and government funded activities (his whole argument that if kids are getting schooled then they don't deserve dividend; and if people are getting government assistance in other ways they don't get a dividend.) But of course he only applies this logic to the things he does like as a right wing conservative. By his logic you could apply the same to any benefit anybody receives from teh government. Drive on the roads, get serviced by the ferry, have an airport, have your state roads plowed, well consider those a "user fee" and subtract it from your dividend. Basically this guy is out to lunch.