For decades, local counties in Oregon were allowed to put a small tax/fee on each load of timber hauled out of the national forests. This was because while it

For decades, local counties in Oregon were allowed to put a small tax/fee on each load of timber hauled out of the national forests. This was because while it was federal forests, the county still had to maintain roads, build hospitals, schools, etc. In the 90's, logging was drastically cut back, due to several factors (the spotted owl being a major one). For about 20 years, the federal government kept making those payments. About 10 or so years ago, those payments stopped. Most of the counties couldn't/wouldn't cut back, even though they knew that it was coming (their senators had brought home the bacon the past years, etc). But no longer having that subsidy, plus the very anti-government (this is the state of jefferson [1]) anti-tax people that lived there meant funds were re-allocated to critical infrastructure only. (ie, parks are no longer watered/mowed, no libraries, the bare minimum gaurds at jails, (not what is best practices), etc [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_state) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_st...