text: A few minutes with Google got me this: If we chose to pay down the entire PERS unfunded liability over a decade by adding a tax to motor vehicle fuel, alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages and divided it equally among only those three items, we're looking at forty cents per gallon of fuel, forty cents per alcoholic drink and twenty cents per non-alcoholic drink. 
  
  We should perhaps add a comparable tax to marijuana and drive-through food and drink, which brings all those down by a 40% so we're looking at
  less than a quarter per gallon of fuel and per alcoholic drink and just over a dime per non-alcoholic drink.
  
  None of those are going to get standing ovations (what tax does?). Can we at least admit that much of the consumption shown is luxury in nature?  I just did this little back of the envelope to point out that this debt is payable. There's really no way to pretty up a debt that is roughly $10k per adult in the state no matter what color lipstick one uses.