So the legislature is charged with enacting a budget,  balanced,  and they "don't track" the health care costs of employees in K-12 education.  Where is there a place more stupid that Oregon,  overall?

Don't track a line item in the budget?  K-12 salaries and benefits must be paid by the per student per day allowance "the State" gives each school district since Kitzhaber confiscated the school district revenue from every district in Oregon,  and then the state doles out the money on a schedule that punished "rich" districts to give to "poor" districts.  And untouched are the employees of government.  No end to the largesse in benefits and pensions.  And the salaries are fair to middling,  but top tier in the US when all are added together.  Mercy me!  Oregon really is government,  by government,  for government,  and very high taxes which are not now enough.  So the hogs at the trough raise their collective heads and grunt "More."  And the legislature will do its best to comply.

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