Tax amnesty collects a bunch of money

Of course, it's not enough to stave off the pending state budget crisis, which could result in the laying off of teachers and child care workers and such.

Still, the program collected $261 million in less than two months.

If you'll recall this is the program that resulted in a lot of people getting collection letters demanding payment of 12 cents, a nickel, a penny and so on.

So $261 million. That's a lot of nickels.