Oh, come on!  It's not that business "didn't roll over," it's that they have fought to reduce their contribution to the state's treasury for years.  That's why the amount of income taxes they paid as a percent of the whole has gone down for ~40 years.  Equally, if there was a more reasonable proposal for taxes, they surely would have fought that tooth and nail, as they have fought every tax increase ever proposed.  Sorry, but you reap what you sew.  By not being part of an effort to address this growing problem, business--particularly big business--put itself in danger of the type of blunt instrument that ballot initiatives represent.  Measure 97 is surely flawed, maybe highly so.  But along with the failure of leadership in Salem, it resulted from a lack of leadership on the part of the business elite in this state.