If it keeps the roads plowed, the airports open, the troopers patrolling, the fires fought, the jails guarded, the schools teaching, etc etc etc, I'll pay 1.5% of my income. 

I'd even pay more, perhaps. Not a lot, not happily, but more. 

Point is (and this is lost on a lot of people), there isn't enough easy cutting possible to balance the budget, and neither group in the Legislature has shown a fraction of the leadership necessary to start working on the really difficult cuts, like the mandatory spending. So new revenue is needed. Desperately. And immediately.