text: Half of your statement is undoubtedly accurate.
  
  The other half has absolutely nothing to do with reality.
  
  The 'Oregon taxpayers' will have some as-yet-undetermined-number of property tax lots formerly assessed at timber rates converted to $500,000 and up valued individual properties paying Lane County and ESD and other taxes at those much higher rates instead.
  
  More money for Lane County will be the bottom line from this one.