No one 'gave up' their dividend to pay for this trip. The $1000 'cut' was *Taken* under Administrative Action by Governor Walker, and the legislature did nothing to stop it. However, that money is still sitting in the Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve Account. 

Governor Walker could not/did not/can not spend it. He could veto the appropriation of it, but couldn't do anything WITH the money, and the Corrupt Bastards Club in Juneau couldn't spend it as the session was already gridlocked and did nothing in the few days after Governor Walker cut the appropriation. They gaveled out and the 'taken' money was still there, where it sits even now.

When the CBC starts up again in January, THEN they will be free to take that extra $1000 x every eligible Alaskan and blow it on paid junkets to Botswana or wherever, which is, of course, 'none of our business'. Our corrupted legislators, freshly re-elected to their comfy CBC Leather Office Chairs, need vacations too!