text: It's ok - I think your points are fair. The schools and kids are suffering. It's not all on PERS - it's at least partly because corporations used to pay a lot more in taxes in this state (effective tax rate) than they do now, and partly from a reduced timber revenue amount that the Feds used to kick back to us. 
  
  I think corporations need to kick more money into our coffers - closer to the levels they used to 20 years ago, although a gross sales method doesn't seem ideal for those companies that operate with large volume but thin margins.