we purchase the cafe kell nort -- del norte in 2003 and since then suffered a success of well-intended fees and legislation passed on that have directly impacted our bottom line. i think what you're hearing here today is from the small business owners is that we are at our threshold. we have laid off, we have cut back. we have taken no salaries on our own parts. we have borrowed to our maximum limit. and what the great agri gations of numbers -- aggregations of numbers don't show is that we're going down. it's not so much this particular fee is that the patterns of fees. we, small business owners, just cannot take any more. we, california music and culture association, last week or two weeks ago now, had a city insider lunchon from the state board of equalization. her assessment for the finances of the state of california for the next five years were bleak, were very, very bleak, and it occurred to me and all of us there that if this is true, we all have to get together and come up with new sources of income instead of taxing your own revenue sources out of business entirely. thanks it