Tell me about $1.99 a carton (ten packs) of taxed cigarettes.  3 for a $1 cans of tuna,  hamburger 3# for $1.  5 loaves of bread for a dollar.  My rent was $50 a month for a one bedroom apt over a garage on Granite St in Ashland.  A house there costs a million bucks today.  I'm sorry,  but the cost of government raised the cost of living.  Oregonians are over taxed and under served and the middle class does well working for government.  Oregon is government,  for government, by government today.  Government created the poor by abducting the economy and capital,   and then wring their hands over "stingy" tax payers.  Take a hike!  Tell me how many jobs per acre does public land support and how many does private land support.  The homeless should go camp on Federal land,  crap on Federal land,  leave their garbage on Federal land.  It's theirs,  as well as yours.  The "safety net" will feed them,  give them health care.  All with someone else's money to pay for it.