text: You're right, in 1999, the legislators and groups complained bitterly when they lost the raid then! They spent $1 million on ads (from oil companies mostly) - small potatoes compared to $5million in 2016 and growing this year. In the '99 failed raid, the legislators and their donors whined that "the People just don't understand their Plan." Alaskans fully understood then, and understand now, this is an attempt to dismantle a successful system and turn the People's Fund into a government trust fund. Not the intent of the Founders and the Constitution that established Alaskans as shareholders of Alaska's resource wealth in common.  Recent budget legislation introduced changes the statute language from "shall transfer" money to the dividend to "may transfer" money to the divided is a sure giveaway that government intends to tap the Fund earnings and spend the PFD without public consent. Gov. Hammond predicted this and set up the PFD to protect the Fund from this government. Stop the raid!