The Dec. 10 opinion piece, “Why not kick Oregon’s kicker to PERS?” blew my mind. And it was written by a person who founded a watchdog group called Tax Fairness Oregon. Seriously, does the author not realize the kicker is constitutionally the taxpayers’ money? Basically, she’s calling for another tax on the already strapped people of Oregon who actually pay taxes. Why not make the people who are eligible for PERS pay in to the pension fund like everybody else? Come on, this isn’t France -- yet.

Craig Mellgren, Sheridan