Michigan's luxury tax

Well I live in Michigan and I don't find it cheap here at all. Maybe because I live close to Detroit or something. I have also lived in several other states as well but with the exception of California Michigan is very expensive. Housing is expensive, so are gas, property taxes, utilities, groceries, insurance and just about everything. I'm amazed when I visit the places I lived in Texas and Pennsylvania and see houses on the water twice as big as mine for half the price. The cost of living in many other states is way lower than here in Michigan yet Michigan has nothing to offer. Sure the lakes are nice but that's about all Michigan has to offer. I pay over $6000 in property taxes each year but the city and the state keep asking for more. I have no children, I use nothing but the library, so where is all that tax money going? I would be willing to pay a little more for certain things if it truly would help the state but I honestly don't trust "the state" to do a good job with my money. Honestly it really doesn't affect me as I don't go to movies or sporting events because they are too expensive as it is. I'd love to go to a Red Wings game once in a while but tickets are already over $50 each plus gas plus parking plus a $10 Coke. If they keep taxing us people will just stop doing those things. Today on the news I saw where one of our legislators wants to impose a 50 cent a gallon gas tax to encourage people to drive smaller cars or to stop driving as much altogether. What does that help? It doesn't. It prevents people from driving around the state and contributing tourism dollars, it keeps people out of the stores, it keeps people from driving down to Cedar Point for a day or a weekend. The economy here in Michigan is already horrible and I just don't see it helping any. Maybe we should have a better public transportation system. But that will never happen as we are the Motor City where everyone is encouraged to have 14 cars that they cannot afford so that we can support the automakers. I don't know what the answer is, I really wish I did, but I don't think taxing us more and more is going to help. At least not now when so many people are barely getting by here as it is. All I know is that I'm completely disgusted with the state of Michigan and the sooner I can get away from it, the better. It was once a great place but it ain't all that anymore.