Alaskans voted overwhelmingly against funding public goods over citizen dividends

Evidence

In September 1999 the state even submitted to the ballot box an advisory question to decide whether it could use a portion of the Alaska Permanent Fund to fund government programs. In a significant vote, the proposal was decisively rejected, with 83.25 percent voting no. This clear rejection of public goods in favor of direct transfers would become even more salient in the following decades. … Alaskan conservatives defended their grant with a variant of Hughes’s argument: Who needed a public university if every book had become available on Amazon? — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets, 379

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, easily-told fact: 83 percent of Alaskans voted down funding their own public goods to preserve the dividend.