Really odd how they do this. The government wants to increase taxes to pay for shortfalls. The only alternative is to cut education for children and services to the elderly? What about research funding for the migration of the Piping Plover or the Great Horned Owl. What is being done to reduce the drain of illegal immigrants on our healthcare and school system. There are thousands of ways for the state to save money, but we'll never see that list. They will pull at the heartstrings of adults that have children and aging parents, it's almost threatening, but it's the strategy used time and time again.