The chess game continues...
Friends,
State lawmakers are not all idiots.
As further proof of the ingenuity of many Lansing politicians, just review how many new, creative ideas they have come up with to take more of your money just in the last few months: A new sales tax on services, a 3000% (not a typo) higher fee on garbage disposal, a new phone tax, a "restoration" of the income tax (increase tax by 15%), a "ticket tax" on sport and concert tickets, a new fee that electric and phone companies could choose to pay the state in exchange for guaranteed monopoly status in their industry, a "luxury" tax on elective services like limo rental and manicures.
The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance is getting some of the credit (or 'blame' in Lansing) for SO FAR stopping the taxes listed above. See state Capitol reporter Tim Skubick's column in today's Lansing State Journal here:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708100314
Skubick's column will run in The Macomb Daily and several other papers around the state this weekend.
As you can read in Skubick's column, these tax-hikers in Lansing can be creative in their scheming of how they might be able to take more of your money, but not face consequences in an election.
They already got away with creating the new Michigan Business Tax that replaces the old SBT. Hmm, somehow the new tax is expected to create a "one-time windfall" of $220 million more dollars for state Treasury this year than the old SBT would have.
And they are hungry for $1.5 billion more!
If only, ONLY they would take some of that creativity and intellect and apply it to spending cuts!
The chess game between the taxspenders and the MTA continues...
Leon Drolet
MI Taxpayers Alliance
www.mitaxpayers.org
State lawmakers are not all idiots.
As further proof of the ingenuity of many Lansing politicians, just review how many new, creative ideas they have come up with to take more of your money just in the last few months: A new sales tax on services, a 3000% (not a typo) higher fee on garbage disposal, a new phone tax, a "restoration" of the income tax (increase tax by 15%), a "ticket tax" on sport and concert tickets, a new fee that electric and phone companies could choose to pay the state in exchange for guaranteed monopoly status in their industry, a "luxury" tax on elective services like limo rental and manicures.
The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance is getting some of the credit (or 'blame' in Lansing) for SO FAR stopping the taxes listed above. See state Capitol reporter Tim Skubick's column in today's Lansing State Journal here:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708100314
Skubick's column will run in The Macomb Daily and several other papers around the state this weekend.
As you can read in Skubick's column, these tax-hikers in Lansing can be creative in their scheming of how they might be able to take more of your money, but not face consequences in an election.
They already got away with creating the new Michigan Business Tax that replaces the old SBT. Hmm, somehow the new tax is expected to create a "one-time windfall" of $220 million more dollars for state Treasury this year than the old SBT would have.
And they are hungry for $1.5 billion more!
If only, ONLY they would take some of that creativity and intellect and apply it to spending cuts!
The chess game between the taxspenders and the MTA continues...
Leon Drolet
MI Taxpayers Alliance
www.mitaxpayers.org
posted by Leon Drolet at
1:27 PM
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