This shouldn't surprise anyone who has lived in Oregon for more than 20 years. Oregon has an essentially unstable tax system. It is missing the 3rd leg of a sales tax. It has the overall lowest corporate taxes in the nation. It jerks around from budget to budget with very little stability. It is hugely thrown around by changes in the economy, far more than most states. I have seen programs and services developed and built in good times and then abandoned in bad. Sometimes within a few years. Sometimes they are rebuilt again, sometimes not. It's incredibly irrational and wasteful, and it damages the lives of both the employees and the people served. This is a perfect example of business as usual for Oregon.