Overall tax burden? What's that got to do with anything?
The Corporate overall tax burden in Oregon is lower because of our chosen (for lack of a better term) tax structure. Are you suggesting we change that?
Do we go to no income tax, and a sales tax like Washington state?
You're talking Apples and Oranges here.
Shall we talk about Individual overall tax burden? How Oregon is the LEAST friendliest state to retire in, in the US?
Or shall we talk about how Oregons Individual tax burden is one of the highest in the Nation?
In the end who do you think pays for those Corporate tax burdens? Individuals do. If you think otherwise, your just naive.
To point to one thing and say, oh this fixes everything, is how we arrived here in the first place.
The fact is, Oregon (State and Local) can't manage a budget - it's not rocket science. You can't spend (or borrow) your way out of poor decisions, or poor choices. If Oregon was my child, I'd of taken away the checkbook two decades ago.