I agree. Employers know what benefits will cost well ahead of time. They are being warned in a specific way now for the years ahead. We have had 12 years of PERS reforms, and benefits have been whittled way down and will dwindle further over time. There has to be some restraint on the employer side as well when employers negotiate salaries and benefits.  They have to plan to pay for the benefits they promise; they have to plan to keep their contracts. I also believe very strongly that we need structural tax reform in Oregon to stabilize revenues as much as possible and to make it less difficult for the schools to plan ahead, to fulfill their contracts with their teachers, and to build a better system of education. Measure 97 is the only serious and legal plan on the table for doing this, and I fully support it until someone can show me a different and better and more viable way to solve the problems we face.