OPINION: We must push back when the PFD is smeared as ‘socialism’

I have seen a growing effort to lump Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend in with so-called universal basic income (UBI) schemes coming out of Washington. Some point to pilot programs in other states or academic papers that label the PFD the world’s only functional UBI and claim it is all the same thing. Some conservatives begin to believe that hype and decide they no longer care about the PFD because of it.