We're not alone.

Minnesota isn't the only state experiencing budget woes. Today's New York Times points out that there are several states across the U.S. that are planning to make program cuts or increase taxes to compensate for their fiscal floundering. 

“Good state budget managers kind of manage their budgets like a household,” Jennifer Davis, the director of Delaware's State Office of Management and Budget, told the NY Times. “When gas and milk costs go up, there are only so many ways to solve it. You don’t eat out, you stop going to movies, you cut out the discretionary stuff.”

So what's the legislative equivalent to giving up restaurants and movies? Governor Pawlenty's given his imput — what do you think?