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Democrats still out of town with their job killing abomination less than a day away, unchallengedBy Nick, Section News
You know you've got a rotten piece of legislation when the mainstream press starts lining up to criticize something that the Democrats have done. The universally panned $700 million Democrat sales tax on some services, complete with a $900 cost of compliance, is such a bad tax that everyone assumed it'd be dead by now. Heck, businesses were lining up saying "please, tax us another way..." Or, as one local chamber of commerce rep said, and I paraphrase here, `shoot me, please shoot me, but shoot me in the foot, not the face!'
And yet here we are. We're less than twenty-four hours from the implementation of a massive, onerous tax hike on the goofiest list of services you've ever seen. You can find it here at the AP. All six pages worth. And come 12:01 tomorrow morning you'll start seeing those remittance-due invoices get over a billion dollars bigger. And the business community isn't happy. Lansing insider publication MIRS publishes a "quote of the day" with each edition and last night's was a classic. Sarah Hubbard from the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce suggested when discussing the recent EPIC / MRA poll showing the legislature had an 80 some odd percent disapproval rating, "We think Ed Sarpolus should call the other 15 percent and see if they've changed their minds." But the MSM reaction is even better. We've got reporters calling the legislature out for this foolishness a day after the House Democrats passed a junk bill, failed to enroll it meaning even if the Senate agreed with them the legislation wouldn't go into effect before tonight's hard-deadline and then cancelled session for the next five days before taking off to hit the club and get drunk while celebrating their shenanigans. Read on...
The Detroit News and the Ivory Tower each have reporters following a similar track... ask job makers for their take on the tax and then editorialize with their own. Reports the Tower:
"First, I'm going to cry and then I'm going to raise my prices to cover it," said Rob Shick, general manager for Pine Knob Ski Resort Inc. in Clarkston.
"We're scrambling right now to prepare for it."
Susan Shea, manager of Antonino Salon & Spa in Biringham, said she really isn't sure how the salon would collect the tax Saturday.
"We have absolutely no plan to go into effect. First of all, I didn't think it was going to go through because it was so stupid," Shea said...
Folks in Lansing need to tax their brains a little harder and come up with some creative solutions that will make sense and stick. The last thing beleaguered Michigan businesses need is another snow job like this one. Emphasis mine. When the Detroit Free Press tells Democrats to "tax their brains a little harder" you know you've got a mess on your hands. Less surprising but more effective is Daniel Howes at the News, a constant critic of bad economic policy, no matter the party sponsoring it.
Yes, Embarrassments 'R' Us would be putting it mildly. If 83 percent of voters polled by EPIC-MRA say they have a "total negative" view of the Michigan Legislature and 64 percent have a negative view of Gov. Jennifer Granholm, what rocks are the others living under? Funny, that. A very similar question was asked right here on Right Michigan when Fast Eddie's poll dropped a few days ago. But that's neither here nor there. There is universal disdain for this tax. There's universal understanding that it's going to kill jobs and that it costs more to comply than it'll actually send to the state. For pete's sake, there's a near universal willingness from Michigan job makers to take a bullet or two if they'd only aim the gun a little bit lower and give them a fighting, limping chance, bleeding chance at survival. But Andy Dillon adjourned the House. He failed to enroll his own bill guaranteeing the implementation of this abomination of a tax and he got his team the heck out of dodge. Classy leadership, that. Now get ready. We're all a day away from paying the price. Literally.
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