text: Fair enough comment. I think M97 is a powerfully good and elegant idea, well worth the small cost it will be to most of us. It will address the financial crisis faced by the schools in a state where the schools are already struggling. It will do this by repairing the corporate tax rate--Oregon corporate taxes are the lowest of all 50 states. 
  
  Health insurance and the cost of almost anything having to do with health care-- that's a whole other animal, and there is nothing like a solution as easy and elegant as M97. I'm trying to figure out what kind of insurance I can afford (and what kind of illness I can afford) right now. Looking at US health care as a system or at the personal level--it's insane, wasteful, and absurd, as well as absurdly complicated.