If they don't raise taxes then that means they have to get serious about reining in the pay and perks of the privileged class of government and school workers, who are doing much better than private sector workers in this state. The average pay and bennies of a state govenment worker is $75,000 according to the Mackinac Center, and $58,000 in the private sector here. There will be plenty of tears in Lansing and in union and Dem halls, but sighs of relief everywhere else.