The big 3 oil companies own  the trans Alaska pipeline system. They have used it to falsely inflate transportation costs of the oil since it's beginning.  The Permanent Fund would be 3 times bigger if it weren't for all of the stealing and corruption they, and our politicians have perpetrated throughout the years.  Republicans have stolen Alaska's economic lifeblood for their own selfish gain. Plain and simple.

Just because someone works hard and I creative, that doesn't make their criminal acts justified.  

Remember, criminal acts  are the easy way out.  They are the tool of the simple minded. Anyone who ever memorializes or promotes corruption, or trickery to take from others as being a sign of intelligence, is truly ignorant.