Claim: Says if Oregon had limited its budget growth to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation, the state's all-funds budget would be about $27 billion today, not $60 billion.
Fact-check: Would Oregon's budget be dramatically smaller if pegged to population growth?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Ian K. Kullgren
Date published: 2013-03-06T00:00:00