What happens when you've made all the reasonable cut back and you can't raise taxes on anything most people will notice, because it'll never make it past your retarded legislature?

You get proposed taxes on ticket sellers.

I'd go into to it more, but Jasper and Whalebomb have done an admirable job over at webvomit. Their well informed opinions are based by solid logic, which can basically be boiled down to -- don't believe that Ticketmaster has the best interest of concert goers at heart and don't believe Mike Illitch isn't more concerned about his own wallet than yours. I've received emails from Palace Sports and Entertainment as well asking me to "oppose" this terrible injustice.

The Illitch's have spent a lot of money in Detroit, created a nice little stretch of Woodward Detroit can be proud of and rebuilt horrible sports franchises into winners (don't forget the Red Wings sucked bad in the seventies and eighties), but they are notoriously "forgetful" about paying contractors and other companies they do business with. I'd usually hate to throw off such a generalization about a whole family, except that I personally know of examples of Little Cesar's, Olympia Entertainment and the grown Illitch children all stiffing other people and companies with the bill.

PS I'm eating leftover $7 dollar deep dish as I type this, great deal.

Ignore the ads and support the ticket tax or luxury tax or whatever, the state is in a budget crisis and while there's likely pork out there to be cut, we need to keep funding our roads, education and business development (particularly in the tech sectors.)