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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
October 26, 2006
Ballot Measure 48 has three major flaws. First, it limits government spending growth to the CPI. This index does not reflect the growth in the cost of state provided services.
State services are labor intensive and their costs have always exceeded the CPI because the CPI is a consumer spending....