It is already a big hit in Raleigh amongst the tax-and-spend crowd. Heard about it?

Jumping the North Carolina sales tax on movie tickets from 1% to 7% is all part of scraping together enough revenue to pay for $20b. worth of state spending this year and $21b. next year and so on. If you voted for Bev Perdue you had to understand that this was coming. Government never has enough money to do all the good it can do — for the children.

So what is another 50 cents or so in the grand scheme of things? Going to the movies already costs an arm and leg, what’s another bit of flesh?

Bonus Observation: When is the “tourism industry,” the CRVA and assorted hangers-on in all of this? Suddenly shy.