It's interesting that the same ratio applies to the recently passed increase in the state lodging tax. Three of every four dollars it raises come from out of state, yet some Oregonians insist it's another unwarranted gouge into their wallets. The political flaw, of course, was wedding the increase to a sports extravaganza five years hence instead of making the case that it was a mostly painless way to boost Oregon's statewide tourism industry that could have used the goosing on its own merits anyway.

As for the privatization of the state's public higher education system, that's been going on for longer than people have bothered to notice.