text: It is not a question of whether the county can tax enough to give employees what they want.  Of course they can.  The question is what is reasonable pay.  This cannot be answered by referencing pay to other counties as all counties face zero competition or need to be frugal.  Pay should be determined by a combination of comparison with similar private for profit company compensation (real competition sets wages scale) and direct experience of how much pay is necessary to hire new employees able with reasonable training to do the jobs.
  
  It is widely believed that county pay exceeds reasonable expectation for work performed.  If this is indeed the case.  We must not shy away from accepting a strike and waiting until county employees either accept reasonable wages or quit so that new and better employees can be hired.
  
  This one Lane county voter suggests that the county lock the doors for at least one month once the unions strike.  Think of the possible park improvements enabled.