Yeah, the dems just can't stop raising state spending primarily through wage hikes for the public employees and other discretionary expenditures.  So of course, they have to take money out of people's pockets to pay for their continued largesse, which they see as vital to retaining political control.  Note that public employees are not an impoverished group.  The dems serve their own interests just like the repubs.  Only difference is that the dems delude themselves into thinking that they "care" about interests other than their own.