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Does the Alaska dividend count? As far as I know, everyone domiciled in the state gets the same check.
by logfromblammo 8y ago
Does the Alaska dividend count? As far as I know, everyone domiciled in the state gets the same check.
- falcolas 8y agoThat particular check amount depends on how long you've lived there.
- ceejayoz 8y agoNot since SCOTUS struck that down in 1982. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund > The first dividend plan would have paid Alaskans $50 for each year of residency up to 20 years, but the U.S. Supreme Court in Zobel v. Williams, 457 U.S. 55 (1982) disapproved the $50 per year formula as an invidious distinction burdening interstate travel. As a result, each qualified resident now receives the same annual amount, regardless of age or years of residency.
- tom_mellior 8y agoIt's not enough to live off it, so it's not a UBI.
- logfromblammo 8y agoFor the subsistence hunter-gatherers that usually barter, it is enough to soften the blow of a lean year, and a nice bonus in a fat year. For everyone else, it represents part of a new chainsaw, or snow machine, or set of fur traps, or some other vital tool of their trade or side-hustle that might be otherwise inaccessible without financing. The point is that everyone gets it, and it is very possible to examine how people spend it, and why they chose to spend it that way. Extrapolation can provide some limited insights as to what might happen if everyone got more in total, at more frequent intervals.