One of the reasons your countless opinion pieces did not influence the outcome of this debate is your refusal to tell the truth about how Alaska is giving away its oil.  People know propaganda when they read it.  Here is an example of your propaganda, Dermot: "...the clamor to squeeze more dollars from oil..."  Your characterization is baloney- as if there is barely an extra cent to spare...

If you'd written that we need to stop giving away our oil tax-free, your (baseless) arguments to reduce Alaskans' dividends lose sway.    

If we'd stop giving away the oil, and end the corporate welfare to Big Oil, our deficit (if any) would be easily taken care of by reserve accounts.

But your long term goal- for more than 20 years- is to see dividend checks confiscated.  

Why?  Maybe you still hold a grudge that you were not able to get Dividends taken from Alaskans the last time we had this fight, in 1999.

How dare those 83% of Alaskans who defied the liberal elite in taking the PFD!