Sure, let's make the entire state just like Josephine County, where a woman called 911 while her attacker was breaking in and was told there were no law enforcement personnel on duty. Or how about Curry County, which shuts down law enforcement after midnight? There's always that bastion of civilization, Douglas County, which after June 1 won't even have a public library. 

Taxes are the price of admission to civilization. Sure, past legislatures have made a bit of a hash of the state's finances, but I really don't want our great state become the western version of Kansas or Mississippi.