The FREEP reports:

Among the sponsors of the repeal -- introduced by Nancy Cassis, R-Novi, who chairs the finance committee -- are two senators who voted for the tax in the early-morning hours of Oct. 1, Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, and Jim Barcia, D-Bay City. At that time, the tax was approved on a 19-19 vote with Lt. Gov. John Cherry breaking the tie...

Business groups have reacted ferociously to the tax, which will mostly be borne by businesses conducting transactions with other businesses.

Some firms who purchase large amounts of some services that will be taxed, including accounting and janitorial, have said their costs will skyrocket.

A coalition was announced Wednesday of 40 business groups who vowed to pursue a repeal of the measure, either in the Legislature or by petition drive.

Rich Studley, vice president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesday the volume and vehemence of opposition to the service tax and the way it was enacted was greater than the reaction to any issue he can recall since the 1980s.

But don't get too excited.  It's not that guys like Barcia no longer want to raise our taxes, they just want to raise them in a different way, having seen the uproar and the clamor that they've caused within the business (read: job making) community.  Although something tells me that with the speed and ferocity of the recall efforts that are being launched on an almost daily basis there might be one or two folks out there who'd switch their votes and support a much more reforms-based solution.

Seems fitting, then, that Jack McHugh of the Mackinac Center went and got himself published in the Oakland Press discussing various cuts and reforms that could get Michigan's fiscal house in order for more than a month at a time without passing along the cost to working moms and dads or killing jobs.

There is a common theme that runs through opposition to every one of these common-sense reforms: "That's not the way we've done it in the past."

That's not good enough anymore: Michigan has already passed the tipping point of going from relative decline in population and income to absolute decline. Without major reforms, there's nothing to prevent the entire state from going the way of Detroit, with a declining population and an economy that is unable to support a government establishment that believes its residents exist to serve it -- not the other way around.

None of these items would be "devastating" to the state, to "vulnerable populations" or even to any particular interest group. Most people would not even notice that these changes had taken place. The alternative, recently authorized by the governor and the state Legislature, was to raise the income tax to 4.35 percent and spread the 6 percent sales tax to some services. This will only drive more people out of Michigan and hasten the impoverishment of a formerly rich state economy that in this decade has become a poor one.

Check out the OP for the Center's latest list.  And pick a few from his list and send them along to your local State Rep if you get a second today.  With the Democrats angling for a second government shutdown in a month they could use all the help they can get.