READ MEY LIPS: The money was collected FROM ALASKANS via the GAS TAX. Its simply coming home after sitting in the trust fund for 40 years.
BZZZZZZ!!
WRONG!!!
The money came from New Yorkers, and Californians, and Michiganders, etc. The gas tax is a point-of-sale tax charged to consumers. Rush would argue that the ultimate cost is borne by the sellers (but that isn't execatly true because gas is commoditized; the removal of the tax would bring lower prices, not higher profits). But the sellers are the gas and oil companies.
What's funny is too see Alaskans dribble like Stalinists... Boo-hoo! "We [Alaskans] didn't pay for it, we never owned it, but it's ours because it came from under our STATE."