In a just released Triangle Business Journal online poll, 57% of the 680 respondents said no thanks to more taxes. Seems most folks believe that government should do just what the rest of us have to do ? live within our means. Gov. Perdue apparently has not gotten the message, asking the legislature today to raise taxes by $1.5 billion. The state budget can be balanced with no taxes and still preserve education, programs for the needy and other essential government functions. Coletti outlines exactly how in his Can Do Budget. The Governor and legislative leaders can do it – they just have to want to.