The GOP has been using this talking point against Scandinavian countries for decades. I don’t buy it. Just because we are bigger doesn’t automatically mean we can’t scale it or make it work here.

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2. It's really sad that things like that will never be implemented here.

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Sun Dec 8, 2019, 10:38 AM

Dec 2019

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3. Alaska has been doing it since 1982

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Sun Dec 8, 2019, 05:37 PM

Dec 2019

The 2019 Alaska Permanent Fund dividend will be $1,606, the state Department of Revenue announced Friday.

The annual check this year will be delivered to 631,000 Alaskans, most of the state population, and come largely from earnings of the state’s $64 billion fund that for decades has been seeded with income from oil-production revenue.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019/09/27/this-years-alaska-permanent-fund-dividend-1606/

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