Time to stop playing games with politically rich dividend
Little kids can’t help but play with their food. Gamblers can’t stop playing with a pair of dice or deck of cards. Cats can’t help but play with a ball of yarn. It’s the same with legislators who play around with voter-enticing talk of a fat Permanent Fund dividend.
They just can’t help themselves, particularly in an election year. Like kids, gamblers and cats, it’s in the DNA of too many elected officials.
It’s too much “fun” to talk about a PFD this year of almost four times the size of last year’s dividend.
It’s too much “fun” to recite their pro-dividend pledges and votes when they campaig...
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