text: You  mention logic, PERS and the State of Oregon (which has been Democratically-controlled for decades) in the same sentence?
  
  Bizarre!
  
  Those of us already paying the third highest rate of income tax in the country and the 26th highest property tax rate in the country see the kind of results that gets us. 
  
  The Bridge that Never Was; The Hwy 22 section that was never completed; The Obamacare Computer System that Never Existed.
  
   Almost a Billion Dollars right there wasted completely! 
  
  And in the toilet on high school graduation rates nationwide. And several of those that do graduate are functionally illiterate in English and Math.  
  
  Why on earth would we want to increase the money being wasted by Salem or Eugene?