Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are Trying to Go It Alone
The central rural parts of Oregon are killing their communities out of ignorance.<p>In 2014 Josephine county voted down a tax to keep their jail open.<p>Another counties entire sheriff&#x27;s department resigned recently, due to lack of funding to properly staff the office; they were all burning the candle at both ends.<p>There are other examples of this behavior over the last decade that are easily Googled, so I&#x27;ll avoid posting it all.<p>If you talk to these people, or see their commentaries online, many of them are thinking they&#x27;ll just make taxes low, and of course someone will build a factory, in the middle of nowhere, with a poorly informed workforce, and no social services.<p>The locals don&#x27;t want to shoulder the cost of education and security, but of course some private business owner will.